Prop 50 would divide one Clovis neighborhood into three congressional districts

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Valley voters are present casting their ballots successful California's peculiar election.

"From what I've seen, it tin alteration however things spell per party," Clovis elector Alex said.

Proposition 50 would temporarily redistrict the state, allowing partisan lawmakers to gully the lines alternatively of an autarkic commission.

Congressional boundaries would displacement everywhere, giving Democrats an precocious manus successful adjacent year's midterm elections.

In the Central Valley, which is location to a 3rd of the state's Republicans successful Congress, the City of Clovis would spell from 1 legislature territory to 3 adjacent the country of Gettysburg and Sunnyside avenues.

The Clovis City Council has voted to formally reason the change.

"You can't look astatine this from conscionable a section perspective," Lonny Johnson with the Fresno County Democratic Party told Action News.

He believes the state's manus was forced aft President Trump called connected Texas lawmakers to adhd Republican seats there.

"We person to person a spot astatine the table, and we cannot proceed to beryllium marginalized by the Trump administration," Johnson said. "And the lone mode we tin bash that is to enactment a cheque connected the Trump administration, and that's what Prop 50 is about."

In Clovis, Mayor Pro Tem Diane Pearce says Prop 50 would wreak havoc connected the city. She authored the assembly solution against the ballot measure.

"We're going to beryllium divided into 3 districts, and that is the quintessential illustration of diluting the dependable of the voters successful Clovis," Pearce said.

With the projected lines splitting 1 vicinity into 3 districts, Pearce fears residents' voices could beryllium lost.

"When they person different areas successful their territory that person a heavier percent of voters, it conscionable dilutes our dependable and our quality to bring our issues forward," Pearce said.

But Johnson views it differently.

"If you person 3 of them, that means you're going to person 3 congressmen oregon congresswomen who are going to advocator for you," helium said. "If they privation to get re-elected, they're going to beryllium liable to our needs."

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