Polls open at 7 a.m. for Prop 50 vote

"Polls open today at 7 a.m. for a special election in which voters have one decision to make: how to vote on Proposition 50, a Congressional redistricting measure.Polls close at 8 p.m. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters provides a map of voting centers. Oakland polling sites include: Sankofa United Elementary School, 581 61st St. Parks Chapel AME Church, 476 34th St. Beth Eden Baptist Church, 1183 10th St."

"Prop 50, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, authorizes the California state legislature to temporarily change the state's Congressional district maps in response to partisan redistricting by the Texas GOP. If the measure passes, California's new district maps would be in place only through 2030, when the next federal census is conducted. After that, the state's independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, created by a 2008 state law, would resume oversight over congressional district maps."

Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. for a special election with one measure on the ballot: Proposition 50. Multiple Oakland polling sites and county voting centers are listed, and voters can still vote by mail if ballots are postmarked today or delivered to a drop box by 8 p.m. Same-day conditional voter registration is available at polling places and the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office; those ballots are counted after voter verification. Prop 50 would let the state legislature temporarily redraw Congressional maps until 2030 in response to partisan redistricting by the Texas GOP, after which the Citizens Redistricting Commission would resume oversight.

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