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Ballots Go Out for California’s Prop. 50 as Officials Warn Against Mailing on Election Day

A voter‑guide map error is prompting a $3–4 million correction.

People drop off their ballots at the Los Angeles County Registrar on October 28, 2024, in Norwalk, California, two days after early voting in Los Angeles County began. Millions of US voters have already cast their ballots either by mail and drop-off boxes or in-person early voting ahead of the November 5 US presidential elections. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
People walk through Old Town Temecula in 2020. New congressional maps going before California voters in November would shift Temecula, a GOP-friendly city, from a red district to one with a plurality of Democratic voters in an effort to give Democrats more seats in the state’s House of Representatives delegation. (File photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
The Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, Calif., on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
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Overview

  • Vote‑by‑mail is underway statewide for the early‑November special election on Proposition 50, with Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber urging voters to return ballots early or use drop boxes.
  • State officials warn that in areas more than 50 miles from six USPS processing centers, ballots mailed on Election Day may be postmarked late and not counted; voters can request a manual postmark at a postal counter.
  • California will send correction postcards to about 8 million voters after the Legislative Analyst’s Office mislabeled District 27 as District 22 in the voter guide map, a labeling error that does not affect ballots or proposed districts.
  • Prop. 50 would suspend the independent redistricting commission’s maps through 2030 and adopt Legislature‑drawn congressional districts intended to counter Texas’s mid‑decade map and potentially shift about five U.S. House seats.
  • The campaign has already raised more than $215 million as of Oct. 2, with major support for Prop. 50 from House Majority PAC and George Soros’ Fund for Policy Reform and major opposition funding from the Congressional Leadership Fund and Charles Munger Jr.; counties face compressed timelines, fewer vote centers such as San Diego’s 68 vs. 235 last November, and likely fast‑tracked legal challenges to the California Supreme Court.