As Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) moves to redraw California's congressional lines, a new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of California voters—including 61 percent of Democrats—favor keeping the state's independent map-drawing commission, a clear rejection of Newsom's gerrymandering push.
Sixty-four percent of California voters want to keep the Citizens Redistricting Commission, an independent panel that the state created in 2008 to determine its congressional maps, while just 36 percent say they "support returning congressional redistricting authority to state legislators," according to a Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab poll.
The Thursday poll found broad bipartisan support for keeping the independent commission, with 66 percent of Republicans and 61 percent of Democrats in favor. Independent voters are even more supportive, with 72 percent backing the panel's control over redistricting.
The findings come as Newsom has called for a ballot measure as early as this November that would give the Democratic-controlled Legislature temporary power to redraw the congressional maps set by the independent commission, creating up to five additional Democratic seats in the already deep-blue state, Politico reported.
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