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Drawing the Lines: In-Person Meetings to Discuss District Borders Sept 22, 29, 30
COMMUNITY NEWS Drawing the Lines
In-Person Meetings to Discuss District Borders Sept. 22, 29, 30
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The state of California has begun the process of redrawing the lines for redistricting, making sure each district has equal population and complies with the Voting Rights Act.
New census data will be released Sept. 30. This will likely mean new boundary lines for supervisorial districts in Santa Cruz County, Assembly and Senate districts and Congressional districts; maps must be approved by the county Board of Supervisors by Dec. 15.
Santa Cruz County has established a Redistricting Advisory Committee, created a website at https://www.santacruzcounty.us/Redistricting2021.aspx and scheduled public meetings on the process.
Local residents can use that website to provide input on which neighborhoods should be grouped together for supervisorial elections or attend an in-person meeting: Sept. 22, Mid-County, at Sheriff’s Office community room, 5200 Soquel Ave., Live Oak; Sept. 29: North County, Felton Library, 6121 Gushee St., Felton, and Sept. 30, South County, Starlight Elementary, 225 Hammer Drive., Watsonville. All meetings are at 6:30 p.m.
To attend via Internet, go to: https:// zoom.us/j/92519338521 (Webinar ID: 925 1933 8521)
To attend via Conference Call, dial: 669-900-9128.
Members of the Redistricting Advisory Commission, which began meeting in May, are: Cheri O’Neil (1st District), Michael Watkins (2nd District), Kris Reyes (3rd District), Peter Radin (4th District) and James Mosher (5th District).
To check your district, see https:// electiondatalookup.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/ Default.aspx. n
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The California Citizens Redistricting Commission is hosting online meetings to collect information about “communities of interest” across the state. Santa Cruz County is in Zone E with Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. The commission also is accepting testimony online at https://DrawMyCACommunity.org/
For the timeline see https://www.wedraw thelinesca.org/timeline. For questions, call 916-323-0323.
“Recall Ballots” from page 15
So, we are AD 29 and AD 30. The 29th candidate listed in the random alpha order (Angelyne) is first for AD 29 and for AD 30 James G. Hanink (30th Assembly District) is listed first.
Napa County is a different AD, so their first candidate would be different than ours. However, the list is the same in the respect that in Napa, Angelyne would be followed by Hanink followed by Hillberg, Hewitt, Drake and on.
Yes, the counties did design them differently. I chose to use the smaller paper and separate the recall question from the candidates because I knew the candidates would be in multiple columns and the layout seemed clearer to have the yes/no in its own column on the front and the candidates in their 3 columns on the back. Other counties had a different idea.
Some are like us, others like Napa. And others have the candidates listed on both the front and the back.
Ballot design does vary from county to county for a variety of reasons – language requirements and the voting equipment are the main ones. For counties that are mandated to have bilingual ballots, they decide if they want all their languages on one card or if they want to make a separate card per language. LA County, for example, uses a different voting system than we do, so their ballots will look different. n •••
Editor’s note: Here are the results of the July 19 Secretary of State’s random alphabetized drawing for order on the ballot: 1.X 2.K 3.T 4.V 5.F 6.N 7.R 8.G 9.J 10.Y 11.Z 12.L 13.M 14.B 15.A 16.Q 17.H 18.D 19.I 20.E 21.P 22.C 23.W 24.S 25.O 26. U.
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