In late August, California lawmakers voted to initiate a Nov. 4 special election to pass Proposition 50. As mail-in voting opened earlier this month, student groups, advocates and the union workers at UC Berkeley are advocating for Prop. 50 and urging students to “VOTE YES.” Prop. 50 would replace the district lines drawn by a state nonpartisan commission with new boundaries created by partisan lawmakers — allowing Democrats to win up to five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Eric Schickler, the co-director of campus’s Institute of Governmental Studies, or IGS. The five new seats could counteract the five seats that Texas lawmakers created and gained through unilateral redistricting by the state legislature earlier this year, Schickler added. Read more through the link in bio. ✍️: Hannah Kaminker 📸: Kai Bloom . . . #ucberkeley #dailycal #berkeley #prop50 #california #texas #pippilångstrump