Vote NO on Prop 50
We Cannot Save Democracy
by Burning it Down in California
Prop 50 is an Attack on Fair Elections
For decades, Sacramento politicians drew their own district boundaries behind closed doors with no public oversight — guaranteeing their reelection, denying voters a real choice, and shutting out many women and people of color from elected office.
In 2010, California voters overwhelmingly approved the Voters FIRST Act for Congress — entrusting the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to draw fair congressional districts.
Now, career politicians are using Prop 50 to abolish citizen-drawn maps and put themselves back in charge of redistricting. Prop 50 creates one of the most extreme partisan gerrymanders in modern American history — creating politician-drawn maps that experts call "one of the two worst gerrymanders of the last 50 years."
A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN CALIFORNIA
Prop 50 Strips Away California’s Constitutional Voter Protections:
✘ Damages Our Democracy
Prop 50 will return California to an era when politicians drew safe districts for themselves that guarantee reelection — robbing voters of real choices and shutting out many women and people of color from office.
✘ Opens the Door to Gerrymandering
Prop 50’s gerrymandered lines carve up communities across California — breaking them apart and making it harder for local communities to receive fair representation.
✘ Costly, Wasteful and Dangerous
Prop 50 wastes more than $200 million on a special election so Sacramento politicians can get more power by destroying our hard-won electoral reforms.
✘ Silences Community and Citizen Voters
Prop 50 eliminates public input and transparency from the redistricting process by letting politicians secretly draw maps behind closed doors.
✘ Ends Independent, Citizen-Drawn Maps
Prop 50 is a slippery slope that could eliminate citizen-drawn maps entirely, handing the power to draw district lines back to career politicians. And once politicians seize power, they may never give it back.
✘ Undermines Accountability
Prop 50 is backed by the same politicians who have crippled California with one of the nation’s worst cost-of-living crises. These career politicians and their special interest allies spent millions fighting citizen-led redistricting in the first place — and now they want to draw their own lines to avoid accountability for their failed policies.
JOIN OUR COALITION TO OPPOSE POLITICAL GERRYMANDERING
Stand with good government organizations, social justice advocates, community leaders, and everyday Californians who believe redistricting should be fair, transparent, and free from political manipulation. Join the fight to protect independent redistricting in California.
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