Right now, one county in California –– Sacramento County — is known to livestream its elections. The footage shows staff conducting ballot tabulations, which entails placing ballots through scanners.

The election will determine whether the state will adopt new Democrat-leaning congressional districts in response to Texas’ Republican-favored redistricting.

California Democrats may have successfully muscled a new congressional map through the state legislature this week, but the redistricting fight in the Golden State is only just beginning.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the proposed partisan redistricting that favors Democrats is a necessary counterweight to President Trump's threat to American democracy.

California lawmakers passed a legislative package Thursday advancing a partisan redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats up to five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections, the latest step in a tit-for-tat gerrymandering battle after Texas Republicans advanced their own redrawn map to pad their House majority by the same number of seats at President Donald Trump's urging.

California lawmakers on Thursday passed the first of three bills aimed at drawing new congressional maps, as Democrats try to counter a Republican-driven effort in Texas.

California voters will decide in a November special election whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year.

California lawmakers on Thursday began passing a series of bills aimed at drawing new congressional maps, as Democrats try to counter a Republican-driven effort in Texas.

Stanislaus County is among the areas affected by the potential California redistricting – moving places that were "toss-ups" in the last election into solidly blue territory. Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for a special election to authorize mid-decade congressional redistricting in direct retaliation to Texas doing the same.