Citizens’ Assemblies: News from California from New America Foundation's James Snider
Topic: Issues & Ideas, Citizen Assemblies08. November 2005 Comments
Shortly after the referendum tomorrow, two senior California assemblymen are expected to announce their intention to introduce legislation in January to create a citizens assembly to address electoral reform. As you know, California is widely considered to have a pathologically uncompetitive electoral system. As an op-ed on the referendum in today’s New York Times noted: "The fix is so complete that in 2004 not one of the 173 state legislative and Congressional seats being contested in California changed party hands."


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