Calif. to spend millions more to correct error in Prop. 50 voter guide 

California is already spending hundreds of millions of dollars to hold a special election next month to consider if the state should temporarily adopt a partisan Congressional district map.

But a mistake in the voter guide that was recently mailed out will cost the state millions of dollars more, money that would never have needed to be spent if Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the Legislature did not push for mid-decade redistricting.

The backstory: Newsom and Democrats pushed through Proposition 50, which will go in front of the voters on Nov. 4. • The special election already has a price tag of $284 million.

The big picture: California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that page 11 of the voter guide that has already been mailed out incorrectly labeled District 27 as Dis