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Alejo and his Assembly cronies try to take away even more voters rights.

While searching around on the news this morning seeking to find out what cities in Calif. have district elections I found a bill that Assemblyman Roger Hernandez has introduced.
AB 1383,permitting. District-based municipal elections.Existing law provides for political subdivisions that encompass areas of representation within the state. With respect to these areas, public officials are generally elected by all of the voters of the political subdivision (at-large) or from districts formed within the political subdivision (district-based). Existing law, the California Voting Rights Act of 2001, prohibits an at-large method of election to be imposed or applied in a manner that impairs the ability of a protected class to elect candidates of its choice or its ability to influence the outcome of an election, as a result of the dilution or the abridgment of the rights of voters who are members of a protected class, as defined.Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to submit to voters at any municipal or special election an ordinance providing for the election of members of the legislative body by districts, from districts, by districts with an elective mayor, or from districts with an elective mayor. Under existing law, “by district” means election of members of the legislative body by voters of the district alone and “from district” means election of members of the legislative body who are residents of the district from which they are elected by the voters of the entire city. Existing law prescribes the procedures for the electors to change from the election of these members by district to election from districts or vice versa.This bill would permit the legislative body of a city to provide by ordinance, without submitting the ordinance to the voters of the city for approval, for the election of members of the legislative body by district if the voters of the city previously rejected such an ordinance, as specified. This provision would be repealed on December 31, 2016.

So, Hernandez wants to introduce a bill to have district elections in many different cities and allow the city council to make the choice and not give voters the right to choose. His bill coupled with Alejo's bill is a grand attempt to strip voters of any rights to vote.
I'm going to write Governor Brown about this bill also.

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