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Opinion: California can never win a race to the bottom with Trump on redistricting

Aug 10, 2025
1 min read

This San Francisco Chronicle op-ed argues that instead of matching Trump in a redistricting fight, California should adopt proportional representation, the fairest way to divide up legislative seats. Republicans win about 40% of California's votes for Congress and the Legislature but hold less than a quarter of the seats, a gap the authors trace to winner-take-all, single-member districts. Proportional RCV, which elects several representatives per district by ranked ballot, is one route to proportional representation, and the one Cal RCV sees as the best fit for California.


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