Redistricting is, admittedly, a complicated political tradition. But, put simply, it’s a logistical part of the process that determines who represents you in elected office based on where you live.

In other words, redistricting is all about maps and boundaries.

And it’s certainly, especially this year, all about politics.

Gov. Gavin Newsom officially launched the campaign for mid-cycle redistricting in California with a rally at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 14. Newsom said it would be up to voters to decide, in a special election on Nov. 4, whether to implement new congressional districts in the state for 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections.

The idea is a partisan one, an effort to favor Democrats in the state’s congressi

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