{"id":28911,"date":"2025-10-29T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:03:08","slug":"will-the-government-shutdown-impact-californias-election-on-prop-50-times-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28911\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the government shutdown impact California\u2019s election on Prop. 50? \u2013 Times-Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ongoing government shutdown<\/a> is expected soon to delay food benefits<\/a> and impact pay for federal employees<\/a>. But will it have any effect on California\u2019s special election on redistricting<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The short answer is no, according to the California secretary of state\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only possible impact would be if United States Postal Service operations were interrupted and the USPS has noted that their operations won\u2019t be interrupted,\u201d a spokesperson for the secretary of state said in an email.<\/p>\n

Natashi Garvins, a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service, confirmed that.<\/p>\n

\u201cU.S. Postal Service operations will not be interrupted in the event of a government shutdown, and all Post Offices will remain open for business as usual,\u201d the agency said back in September<\/a>. \u201cBecause we are an independent entity that is generally funded through the sale of our products and services, and not by tax dollars, our services will not be impacted by a government shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garvins also pointed to a Wednesday, Oct. 22, release<\/a> from the Postal Service, which said it\u2019s ready to handle an increase in mail and packages due not only to the ongoing election, but also the holiday season.<\/p>\n

Still, California elections officials have advised voters who choose to vote by mail to get their ballots in early this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Due to changes to mail service this year, people living more than 50 miles from a U.S. Postal Service regional mail processing hub who drop off their ballot in a mailbox or at a post office on Election Day won\u2019t have a guarantee that their ballot will be postmarked that same day. Instead, it could be postmarked the day after \u2014 too late for the ballot to count.<\/p>\n

There are other ways voters can cast ballots, too.<\/p>\n

Voters can drop off their ballot at a secure designated drop box, polling location, county elections office or vote centers, many of which open on Saturday, Oct. 25.<\/p>\n

The federal government remains shuttered as U.S. senators continue to be at loggerheads over spending plans.<\/p>\n

Both sides blame each other for the ongoing shutdown. Democrats have said they will not support a plan to reopen the government unless it includes a provision to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies<\/a> that are set to expire at the end of the year; Republicans have said they want the government to reopen first before they consider a plan to extend those subsidies.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, California is in the midst of a special election on redistricting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Voters are being asked whether to implement new congressional maps for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections. That would mean forgoing the current maps drawn by a 14-member group comprising five Republicans, five Democrats, and four commissioners not affiliated with the two major parties.<\/p>\n

The idea only impacts congressional races. And it\u2019s a partisan one, an effort to favor Democrats in California\u2019s congressional elections as a way to counter similar, Republican-led plans elsewhere in the country to boost the GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ongoing government shutdown is expected soon to delay food benefits and impact pay for federal employees. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,204,181,23,100,180,13,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-28911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newsletter","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-redistricting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}