Local voters can now cast their ballots early in the Nov. 4 statewide special election.
Vote by Mail ballots can either be returned by mail, no postage required, or deposited in any of the eight ballot drop box locations currently open across Pasadena, including one in front of City Hall. In addition, four in-person vote center sites — at Rosemont Pavilion, Villa-Parke Community Center, First United Methodist Church on Colorado Boulevard, and Armenian Cilicia Evangelical Church — will open for four days beginning on Saturday, November 1.
Voters will decide on Proposition 50, a legislative constitutional amendment that would authorize temporary changes to California’s congressional district maps in response to Texas’s mid-cycle partisan redistricting.
Governor Gavin Newsom and state Democratic leaders say the measure is intended to counter Republican efforts in other states that redrew congressional maps to gain additional U.S. House seats. Newsom has framed Proposition 50 as a defense of national democracy and California’s role in it, saying, “We can’t just think differently, we have to act differently.”
Analysts say the map underlying Proposition 50 could give Democrats a stronger advantage, potentially flipping as many as five Republican-held seats in California.
For more information on voting and elections, go to www.lavote.gov.
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