To the editor: I’m happy that Proposition 50 handed in California by a large margin, though it was a case the place I needed to maintain my nostril as I voted for the poll measure (“California voters go anti-Trump, pro-Democrat Prop. 50,” Nov. 4). The manipulation of congressional district boundaries for purely partisan causes is anti-democratic and in the end dangerous to a free system of presidency. However, no democracy can lengthy survive if all constituents aren’t taking part in by the identical guidelines.
When Texas Republicans kowtowed to President Trump’s calls for and obediently gerrymandered their state to realize 5 partisan seats, they left California and different left-leaning states with no selection however to reply in sort. I’m at the least comforted that California adopted the democratic course of and put the proposed adjustments to the state’s congressional maps to a public vote. In Texas, the partisan gerrymandering was accomplished behind closed doorways and with out a vote of the folks.
Gary Vogt, Menifee, Calif.
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To the editor: What may have been the fee if California didn’t reply to Trump’s effort to control voting, enabling him and the Republicans to take care of management of the nation?
In the meantime, California Republicans are suing to problem Proposition 50. The place was the outrage and authorized motion when Trump induced Texas and different states to redistrict as an influence seize with out voter approval? If California didn’t act, does anybody query whether or not anybody would stand in Trump’s approach of additional redistricting so as to add to the Republican benefit, giving him much more energy?
The straightforward place of many “sure on 50” voters is to take care of the districting establishment in our states. I ask these opposing Proposition 50, why shouldn’t California take motion to take care of the established order for voting?
Sidney Pelston, Marina del Rey
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To the editor: What occurred to 1 particular person, one vote?
Gerrymandering is an abomination. What number of votes, together with mine, don’t depend? My “consultant” is of the opposing get together.
If we really need each vote to depend, then we have to radically redesign how we elect our representatives.
Alison M. Grimes, Yorba Linda
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To the editor: Thanks, California. We in North Carolina have fun your ardour in talking for many people who reside in states with out a mechanism to ship a message to the Trump administration. Your redistricting vote represented us and we’re grateful.
Mary Ann Olsen, Pittsboro, N.C.
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To the editor: Trump’s redistricting efforts made it clear that, though fair-minded voters in each events need to abolish gerrymandering, it must be accomplished on the nationwide degree or under no circumstances (“Prop. 50 is on the poll, nevertheless it’s all about Donald Trump,” Nov. 4).
It’s additionally clear that it’s not solely Trump obstructing a good vote; the seditious Supreme Court docket “conservatives” seem able to strike down the anti-gerrymandering measures within the Voting Rights Act, to their very own get together’s and corrupting billionaire donors’ partisan benefit. Each the king and his rogue courtroom princelings must go.
Elle Kranen, Carlsbad
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To the editor: It seems like Gov. Gavin Newsom has simply saved his political profession. By standing as much as Trump and really pulling it off, he’s established himself because the frontrunner for the subsequent Democratic nominee for president. Let the marketing campaign start.
Donald Williams, Riverside
