Munger, a multi-millionaire good-government philanthropist who backed 2008 and 2010 initiatives that established California’s independent redistricting process, has contributed $32 million this year to defend that system. His committee, Protect Voters First, was created soon after Newsom moved to put Prop 50 on the ballot.

With less than two weeks before election day, California voters appear poised to pass the state’s redistricting measure, Proposition 50, to counter Republican redistricting efforts in Texas to

Voters have a big decision to make with Prop 50, which would temporarily redraw California's congressional lines to boost Democrats. But a bigger question looms if the measure passes.

The timing of the endorsement coincides with California voters receiving, and returning, their vote-by-mail ballots for the Nov. 4 election.

View the full episode transcript. California voters have one proposition on the ballot this November: Proposition 50. It’s supporters want California to adopt a new congressional map that could give Democrats five more seats in the U.

On Oct. 22, Former President Barack Obama threw his political weight around in support of California’s Proposition 50 measure.

The monitoring — like in New Jersey, another heavily Democratic state — came amid requests from state Republican Party officials, and Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, called it an act of voter intimidation and suppression.