Applications for the new California Citizens Redistricting Commission have been coming in since December 15. The deadline is February 12. So far, tentatively-valid applications have come in from several thousand Californians. By party registration, the breakdown is: 1,045 Democrats; 969 Republicans; 332 independent voters; 35 American Independent Party members; 31 voters who are registered in unqualified parties; 20 Libertarians; 8 Greens; 5 members of the Peace & Freedom Party.
For more data on the early applicants, see here. Thanks to Fox and Hounds blog, and also Calitics blog, for the link. The link also points to another link that has the application.
The eventual commission will include fourteen members, including four members who are not registered Democrats or Republicans.
Jerry Brown is advocate for continued ACORN roll in census/ voter registration efforts in CA.
see Strunk v US DOC (Census) USDC-DC 09-1295
see also Forjone v CA (HAVA) USDC-NYND 06-1002
One more total evil FRAUD.
Half the votes in half the gerrymander districts = about 25 percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule — no matter who or what is making the gerrymander districts — no matter how square and beautiful looking the gerrymander districts appear on the CA State map.
P.R. and A.V. — regardless of ALL MORON *fixes* like the CRC fix.
Looks like the four non-major party representatives will likely be 2 independents, an AIPer, and a Libertarian.
About 1/3 are from the Sacramento area (Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Yolo)
Richard,
What you called independent voters are really electors that declined to state at the time of registration a
political party or political body. Independent voter
is just the wrong term. Some of these people have picked at primary day a party, viz., Democrat, Republican, or American Independent under S. B. 28.
Because of what happened in Los Angeles County in the
Presidental Primary of 2008, viz., counting AIP voters
as votes for Obama, the AIP current view is we will
not join in any voter fraud as took place in Los Angeles
County in February, 2008. Therefore, the AIP State Central Committee may stop its rights under S. B. 28.
If any AIP elector has a view on S. B. 28, please post
here, because I will share these posts at the State Central Committee meeting of AIP, prior to our vote.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
Independent Party.