Polls open today at 7 a.m. for a special election in which voters have one decision to make: how to vote on Proposition 50, a Congressional redistricting measure.<\/p>\n
Polls close at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Alameda County Registrar of Voters provides a\u00a0map of voting centers<\/a>. Oakland polling sites include:<\/p>\n Sankofa United Elementary School, 581 61st St.<\/p>\n Parks Chapel AME Church, 476 34th St.<\/p>\n Beth Eden Baptist Church, 1183 10th St.<\/p>\n Eastmont Town Center, 7200 Bancroft Ave., Entrance F<\/p>\n Allen Temple, 8501 International Blvd.<\/p>\n Oakland Public Library, 125 14th St.<\/p>\n St. Theresa Church, 4850 Clarewood Dr.<\/p>\n 81st Ave. Branch Library, 1021 81st Ave.<\/p>\n City of Refuge, 8400 Enterprise Way<\/p>\n People can still vote by mail but must postmark their ballots today or deliver them to an election drop box<\/a>\u00a0by 8 p.m.<\/p>\n Anyone who has not yet registered to vote can show up and do same-day voter registration, also called\u00a0conditional same-day registration<\/a>,\u00a0at their polling place or at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office, at 1225 Fallon St., Room G-1. Those ballots will be counted once the county elections office has completed the voter verification process.<\/p>\n \u2018Californians have been uniquely targeted\u2019<\/p>\n Prop 50, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, authorizes the California state legislature to temporarily change the state\u2019s Congressional district maps in response to\u00a0partisan redistricting by the Texas GOP<\/a>. If the measure passes, California\u2019s new district maps would be in place only through 2030, when the next federal census is conducted. After that, the state\u2019s independent\u00a0Citizens Redistricting Commission<\/a>, created by a 2008 state law, would resume oversight over congressional district maps.<\/p>\n \u201cCalifornians have been uniquely targeted by the Trump Administration,\u201d Newsom said in\u00a0signing a bill<\/a>\u00a0authorizing the ballot measure. \u201cThanks to the hard work of the California legislature, they will have a choice to fight back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n At President Donald Trump\u2019s urging, the Texas legislature\u00a0redrew the state\u2019s Congressional districts in August to favor Republicans<\/a>. Missouri and North Carolina then followed suit, and\u00a0five more GOP-led states are preparing to do the same.<\/a>\u00a0A broad range of progressive California organizations, led by the California Federation of Labor Unions, are encouraging voters to even the electoral scales with a Yes on 50 vote.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Trump Administration has attacked working families,\u201d Keith Brown, secretary-treasure of the Alameda Labor Council, told The Oaklandside. \u201cThe Yes on Proposition 50 campaign is a tangible way we can fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n A campaign has also emerged to\u00a0oppose Prop 50<\/a>, heavily backed by\u00a0multimillionaire Charles Munger, Jr.,<\/a>\u00a0who supported the original redistricting measure, arguing that the measure would repoliticize the districting process. \u201cI loathe Texas gerrymandering. I loathe mid-decade gerrymandering,\u201d Munger told ABC News. \u201cIt was a national outrage, but the way to beat it is not to become like it.\u201d<\/p>\n More than 6.4 million <\/a>Californians cast votes on Prop 50 before Election Day. Recent polls have shown that voters are tilting yes, with a poll released Oct. 30 from the UC Berkeley Institute of Government studies finding that 60% of likely voters <\/a>plan to vote for Prop 50. That ratio is slightly higher for those who intend to vote by mail, so early returns tonight could look more promising for passage than the final election day results.<\/p>\n The ballot measure is one of the most closely watched contests nationwide today, along with governors\u2019 races in New Jersey and Virginia and the mayoral race in New York City; together they are seen as bellwethers for next year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n “*” indicates required fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polls open today at 7 a.m. for a special election in which voters have one decision to make:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26142,143,145,144,991,26143],"class_list":["post-37565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county-registrar-of-voters","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-redistricting","tag-special-election-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37565","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=37565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}