What’s next for California redistricting? An expensive election

Now that a special fall election has been called, expect a flurry of activities in the coming weeks from the campaigns on either side of the redistricting issue.

With only a little more than two months until Election Day, campaigns will be working overtime to convince voters whether they should adopt new partisan congressional maps in California to counter similar mid-decade redistricting efforts proposed in Texas and other red states.

California’s statewide special election will take place on Nov. 4, and vote-by-mail ballots should be sent to voters by Oct. 6 — a mere six weeks from now. The ballot measure will be labeled Proposition 50.

That means both the campaign that supports Prop 50, which Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing, as well as an anti-Prop 50 campaign backed by megadonor