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Jonathan Mehta Stein Wants To Hear Every Voice

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Jonathan Mehta Stein Wants To Hear Every Voice

Congressional apportionment decisions and individual states’ redistricting plans. Common Cause pioneered redistricting reform by driving California’s 2008 Voters First Act, also known as Proposition 11, which put the job of determining the boundaries of the state legislature’s 40 senate and 80 assembly seats into the hands of a bipartisan commission of 14 non-politicians (wedrawthelines.ca.gov).

New director for California Common Cause to fight model minority myth and “false sense of security” in Asian American community

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New director for California Common Cause to fight model minority myth and “false sense of security” in Asian American community

But discriminatory laws and practices do not have Asian American exemptions. Stein pointed out that there is no Asian American exemption to a federal public charge rule that targets immigrants. There is no Asian American exemption to deportations or to racially gerrymandered districts. To Stein, the rise in xenophobia and anti-Asian sentiment during the coronavirus pandemic makes this even more apparent.

Op-Ed: There’s a better way to vote: Choose more than one candidate and rank them

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Op-Ed: There’s a better way to vote: Choose more than one candidate and rank them

Ranked choice’s superiority is perhaps most clear in situations like this year’s Super Tuesday, where early voting combines with a big field. But it has other advantages; among them: It can prevent “vote-splitting” in races with multiple candidates from one party. For state and municipal elections, it can replace expensive winnowing caucuses and primaries altogether, saving money and time, but still giving voters the same level of choice...

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