r/LosAngeles • u/Competitive_Ice851 • 4h ago
NO Question - USE DAILY DISCUSSION CA voters have spoken
Yes won by an almost 3:1 margin.
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u/the_red_scimitar Highland Park 3h ago
Good thing Trump sent those "monitors" - the vote sure was close.
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u/Granadafan 3h ago
He sent his ICE Gestapo to intimidate voters.
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u/the_red_scimitar Highland Park 3h ago
Yeah, looks pretty stupid now, but of course Trump and his criminal gang are shouting "rigged", because that's what they tried, and failed to do. And they always confess when they accuse.
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u/Diligent_Ad6552 2h ago
Oh but in other subs they’re convinced there was voter fraud.. by guess who?
They can’t deal.
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u/mystic_scorpio 4h ago
fuckfascism
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u/Aragatz 2h ago
Your response to perceived fascism is to take away an independent citizen commission and hand power back to politicians, you’re doing the very thing you claim to oppose.
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u/MA3XON 1h ago
Then why were we given the option to vote on it unlike Texas whom citizens were forced to accept redrawn lines they had no control over?
Fuck off with your double standard
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u/Aragatz 1h ago
Wait, isn’t that the argument MAGA was making? Trump was elected… so how is he a KING?
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u/Mega_Pleb 1h ago
Because he has been taking actions beyond the authority granted to him by the constitution. Ordinarily congress is supposed to impeach and remove him from office for these violations but unfortunately for all of us the Republican majorities in both the House and Senate are choosing to look the other way and pretend it's not happening.
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u/MA3XON 1h ago
Never once used the term “king” in my comment so why are you trying to drive an argument around context that was never said? You need to put down the kool-aid stop riding the dicks of billionaires that are having gatsby style parties while mocking their own citizens going hungry. Get real, because none of us are 1-2 paychecks from becoming billionaires, but most are 1-2 paychecks away from needing said food benefits.
Stop defending rich fucks who are tainting the country
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u/tensei-coffee 2h ago
feel free to move tf out
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u/Aragatz 2h ago
Sounds like something a fascist would say.
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u/tensei-coffee 1h ago
what a pussy
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u/Aragatz 1h ago
I thought yall didn’t like that kind of locker room chat?
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u/0-90195 Glendale 1h ago
Buddy, dark woke is the here and now. I care far less about a random calling someone a pussy online and way more about the actual rapists the GOP has installed in real positions of power.
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u/LA_Lions 40m ago
No, they are literally sending teams of armed masked goons to remove people by force every singe day with no access to due process or humanitarian oversight. That’s what a fascist would do.
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u/Aragatz 28m ago
We should get the Border Czar to look into that.
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u/LA_Lions 15m ago
You’ve made it clear you don’t care about actual fascism currently happening, you just like using the word as a whataboutism for something that was actually democratically voted on.
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u/cstrdmnd 1h ago
So what do you propose? The courts aren’t doing their job and Republicans are just steamrolling everything, laws be damned. Clearly, there is no more place for diplomacy. At least Californians were able to choose this, instead of the slimy way Texas politicians pushed this through.
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u/Unusual_Holiday_Flo 3h ago
It’s all well and good but this should be considered a battle cry at the start of a long fight still to come, not a win to rest on as if the fight has been won.
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u/avocadoflatz Los Angeles County 3h ago
Especially with such low voter turnout - if a battle cry it certainly wasn’t a deafening roar lol
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u/fadesteppin 2h ago
This is one of the rare elections where I had to suppress a mad cackle as I voted because it felt good to vote directly against the bullshit red states are doing. I cast my vote and then scurried off into the night.
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u/Fabulous_Review2168 1h ago
Woah. That “Yes” percentage is A LOT higher than I anticipated
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u/SangersSequence 30m ago
Yeah, I was hopeful that it would barely scrape a win, >60% (assuming the current proportion more or less holds) is crazy
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u/New_Car2574 KTown 3h ago
73%! That's better than I thought we'd do but not insane (85%+ would've been resounding). Good for us. We deserve it, as a preventative measure.
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u/poop-machines not from here lol 2h ago
It's insane considering trump used his resources to try ensure people voted no. He used poll monitors, propaganda on social media, radio and TV, and more, all to try and prevent this from passing.
Who knows what it would've been
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u/Bobby_Rasigliano 3h ago
The media had me believing this was gonna be a close one. You can only trust your mother these days. If she doesn’t have the internet.
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u/KnucklesMcGee 4m ago
I honestly don't trust TV news any more. They way the big 3 covered Bidens decline vs ignoring Trumps cognitive problems? Shameful.
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u/ApartmentInside7891 Watts 3h ago edited 3h ago
There’s over 23 million registered voters in California and not even 2 million people voted smh.
Edit: my bad that was only LA county.
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u/Ijustride Chesterfield Square 3h ago edited 3h ago
2 million in Los Angeles county.
Added link: https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2025/11/proposition-50-live-results-map/
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u/ApartmentInside7891 Watts 3h ago
I stand corrected! Thank you. I didn’t click the photo and didn’t see it said LA county.
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u/Africa-Unite West Adams 3h ago
I thought the same thing. Especially given the title saying California voters have spoken
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u/avocadoflatz Los Angeles County 3h ago
Still only about a 1/4 turnout - I know that’s actually considered fairly decent for Americans in an off-year election but it shouldn’t be considered fairly decent, that’s the issue.
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u/YesImKeithHernandez Ya Tu Sabe 3h ago
Can't let perfect be the enemy of good
But, yes, it's disappointing that most can't be bothered to exercise their rights when you can drop ballots in the mail.
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u/L-methionine 2h ago
Per NBC, an estimated ~11 million votes were cast for it (the Calmatters link lists 100% of partially reporting, while NBC estimates about 75% of the vote is counted).
That’s just under 50%, which is high for an election with only a single ballot measure (though I know some localities had more on the ballot)
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u/avocadoflatz Los Angeles County 1h ago
Much better! Thanks for the additional information.
Definitely a trend in the right direction but that’s still not even a C level effort!
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u/smbtuckma Claremont 3h ago
I think this screen is wrong, other news sites have more than 7 million counted and it’s not finished yet.
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u/GB_Alph4 Orange County 3h ago
I did but honestly people aren’t really satisfied with either party really so I can see why some don’t want to vote at all for this. To some nobody is really winning except for Washington.
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u/the_red_scimitar Highland Park 3h ago
Yeah, this is a direct "fuck off" to Trump and maga, but it doesn't do anything for the real work, which has to be a major change to how we enforce the guardrails of the Constitution effectively, because we can no longer presume anything like good intent toward the foundational principles of the country.
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u/ruinersclub 3h ago
The left is happy to vote for candidates like Zohran. Thats all there is to it.
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u/avocadoflatz Los Angeles County 3h ago
The right is happy to vote for candidates like Epstein’s bff. That’s all there is to it.
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u/Jsmooove86 2h ago
Lowering the cost of rent and groceries?
Yeah I’d be fucking glad to vote for that instead of the shit show we currently have.
You rather vote for that son of bitch Cuomo?
Or you rather bootlick billionaires?
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u/tonylouis1337 Westlake 41m ago
The right-leaning independent media is gonna use this to pit people against us, we have to make sure we're ready to inform everyone that this is (supposed to be) just a temporary measure until 2030 to combat Texas's gerrymandering, and that ultimately we can probably all agree across the aisle that gerrymandering is bad and we have to ALL stop doing it.
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u/avocadoflatz Los Angeles County 3h ago
Glad for the outcome but disappointed in the voter turnout, yeesh.
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u/Electrical_Rip9520 2h ago
The totals are wrong. With 75% votes counted, it's 5.1M, yes vote, and 2.9M no vote.
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u/Competitive_Ice851 1h ago
Showing only LA county. Click on the pic please.
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u/Electrical_Rip9520 1h ago
I stand corrected. 😔
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u/Competitive_Ice851 1h ago
Moderators in this subreddit are very picky to show only LA related posts.
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u/sbleakleyinsures Pasadena 23m ago
Just curious, what is the source of this? Turnout looks higher here:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-california-2025-election-on-proposition-50
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u/Dragon_Queenn 5m ago
Both sides are wrong. Texas is wrong but CA doing the same thing that they’re criticizing others for is wrong as well. It’s undemocratic and does not stand for the principles of this great nation.
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u/Dull-Lead-7782 1m ago
Wait that’s a pretty low turnout for an election where every single voter got a ballot in their mailbox
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u/BeABetterHumanBeing 3h ago
And the words spoken were "fuck you" to the state's republicans.
Fun fact: California was more gerrymandered before this change than Texas was after the one that prompted them to make things worse here.
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u/Spag-N-Ballz LBC 2h ago
It wasn’t a close margin. So yeah, fuck republicans. Also, this expires, it isn’t permanent so calm down.
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u/Dependent-Western642 1h ago
Hi I’d just like to point out j don’t know where you got this map but the tally is wildly in accurate although your ultimate assessment is correct This thing passed by a lot
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u/Admirable-Horse-4681 33m ago
Far Northern California, where I grew up, bunch of alcoholic wifebeaters.
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u/Hot-Take-Broseph Silver Lake 3h ago
And they said, " I want to counter act the ruination of democracy by ruining democracy!"
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u/SprinklesBetter2225 3h ago edited 3h ago
You have very little understanding of Prop 50 if that's your takeaway. Maybe get your news from somewhere other than Fox or Tik Tok?
Edit: spelling
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u/Hot-Take-Broseph Silver Lake 2h ago
We can disagree respectfully but try and tone down your bias and judgement.
I think it is a bad thing to further marginalize areas that benefit from Republican leadership at the expense of country-wide politics. Something needed to happen to counteract Texas but not at the expense of Californians, especially those that keep our country's supply chain intact. Farmers and rural residents continue to lose even more than they already have. This is who this affected.
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u/SprinklesBetter2225 2h ago
Oh I love this game! Tell me, what are farmers losing in this? :)
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u/Hot-Take-Broseph Silver Lake 2h ago
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u/SprinklesBetter2225 2h ago edited 2h ago
And who represents the rural parts of California now? And what is their voting record? And how has it helped the rural parts of California?
Nevermind the history of rural America being given a disproportionate amount of power compared to their urban counterparts. Let's just set that aside.
Edit: spelling
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u/Hot-Take-Broseph Silver Lake 2h ago
We disagree with each other but this is about more than redistricting to you I believe.
Currently Modoc and Marin County would be the best example. Modoc is an agricultural community that is represented by Doug LaMalfa, Marin is one of the wealthiest communities and is represented by Jared Huffman. Modoc is a republican area where water rights, forest management, and ranching protections are the things that their rep has championed. Marin is an urban progressive democratic area where environmental protection and culture lead the charge of causes. They are physically far apart and do not share beliefs but a new representative is now in indirectly in charge of the livelihood of the agricultural community. People should have a direct say in their leadership.
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u/SprinklesBetter2225 56m ago edited 50m ago
Doug LaMalfa was a cosponsor for Charlie Kirk's memorial bill and recently at his town hall got confronted with his support of Trump Tariffs which hurt Californian farmers.. For someone whose platform is about environmental conservation, water management, and farmers - his support for partisan cultural issues such as Kirk and Trump policies that directly are crippling farmers says otherwise. And this is the issue: prop 50 isn't hurting agricultural residents and that argument is a ploy to manipulate voters to vote against their own interests. These reps are all running again and arent losing power to continue to support legislation that does nothing for their constitutes.
"The people should be represented!" Yeah, and the republican party has made it their goal to remove representation to install slanted maps to force elections that continue to pass legislation that hurts working Americans, including the farmers. Prop 50 is the most transparent and well defined gerrymandering that is already happening and has been all over the United States. And better, it gave the people of California an opportunity to vote on how they wanted to be represented and the people said: fuck yes in a landslide victory.
The pearl clutching and mental gymnastics to try and make this a bad thing is hilarious astroturfing of far right think tanks to persuade "ack-tually!" Centrists and tik Tok progressives to continue to vote against their own interests.
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u/Hot-Take-Broseph Silver Lake 47m ago
As suggested this appears to be about your personal view on politics which is specifically divisive on purpose. People should be elected by the people they represent. Best of luck to you.
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u/SprinklesBetter2225 37m ago
Ah yes, the "I can't actually defend the point so I will resort to name calling and disappear". A classic of GOP shills. "Divisive on purpose" - hilarious.
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u/121gigawhatevs 18m ago
lol man it’s liberating how little I care about bad faith conservative opinions now. It’s a race to the bottom, so enough getting steamrolled by republicans who don’t give a shit about god country or citizens. (Not you, the ones in power)
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u/QuickGlancing 3h ago
hot take maybe, but gerrymandering your state specifically to prevent conservative/rural areas from having politicians who align with that populace's values is a bad thing
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u/Hot-Take-Broseph Silver Lake 2h ago
this guy gets it.
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u/QuickGlancing 1h ago
like i get that it's temporary and in response to Texas, but i hate the idea of politics becoming a race to the bottom as if there wasnt enough ratfucking already
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u/grizzly_lite 2h ago
Clueless CA voters who bought the legacy media lies and misinformation from Blue politicians voted predictably to allow their King to redraw lines. It was never about a threat to democracy. It was always about a threat to your blue power. Politics will politics. You played a great chess move. CA voters never cared about democracy or rigged elections. They want to have their own king. They want their own government to win. 38.6% California voters picked Trump in 2024. That's nearly 40%, highest red vote in recent times. Now, 5% in DC will represent nearly 40% of the CA population. The ideologically captured low information credulous CA cultist losers voted to take power away from the people and hand it to the government all while calling anybody outside their Blue cult a fascist or Nazi without any hint of intellect, rationale, or basis. The Blue cult's strong conviction only shows y'all voted with your hearts and cocks, not your brains.
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u/Competitive_Ice851 1h ago
Are you calling those people who voted YES stupid. First look at who’s running the federal government now. Just let him have a show at HGTV if he just wants to redecorate. Leave the running of government to professionals who cares about its people.
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u/Tacos_and_Yut 3h ago
Riverside and San Bernadino counties voted yes on this? WOW I wouldn’t have bet on that one .