After the start of this year’s mail-in voting, I noticed something strange. Many people I talked to during canvassing were voting against Prop 4, the independent redistricting (anti-gerrymandering) ballot initiative.
This was opposite to what I experienced while gathering 3,200 signatures for Prop 4: Those who knew what gerrymandering is were almost universally against it, and those who didn’t were almost universally against it when it was explained to them. So what’s going on?
I think some voters are confused about Prop 4. A yes vote for Prop 4 is a vote against gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is when politicians draw their own political boundaries to favor their own re-elections.