Nov. 7, 2025 5 AM PT
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 pass anti-Trump, pro-Democrat Prop. 50,” Nov. 4). The manipulation of congressional district boundaries for purely partisan causes is anti-democratic and finally dangerous to a free system of presidency. Then again, no democracy can lengthy survive if all constituents aren’t enjoying by the identical guidelines.
When Texas Republicans kowtowed to President Trump’s calls for and obediently gerrymandered their state to achieve 5 partisan seats, they left California and different left-leaning states with no selection however to reply in variety. I’m at the very 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 finished behind closed doorways and and not using a vote of the individuals.
Gary Vogt, Menifee, Calif.
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To the editor: What may have been the associated fee if California didn’t reply to Trump’s effort to govern voting, enabling him and the Republicans to keep up 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 method 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 keep up the districting establishment in our states. I ask these opposing Proposition 50, why shouldn’t California take motion to keep up the established order for voting?
Sidney Pelston, Marina del Rey
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To the editor: What occurred to at least one particular person, one vote?
Gerrymandering is an abomination. What number of votes, together with mine, don’t depend? My “consultant” is of the opposing celebration.
If we actually 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 rejoice your ardour in talking for many people who reside in states and not using 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 finished on the nationwide stage or in no way (“Prop. 50 is on the ballot, but 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 celebration’s and corrupting billionaire donors’ partisan benefit. Each the king and his rogue courtroom princelings have to go.
Elle Kranen, Carlsbad
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To the editor: It appears to be like like Gov. Gavin Newsom has simply saved his political profession. By standing as much as Trump and truly 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
