Gov. Gavin Newsom has a positive overall job approval from California voters, and is a net-positive for those who consider him a factor and are voting "yes" on Prop 50. However, he's even more of a motivating force for the "no" side, many of whom are Republicans, and half of whom say he's a reason for them to oppose it.

There's one topic dominating California's election season this year: Proposition 50, an effort to redraw the state's congressional maps in order to create five new Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

More OC politicians are weighing in on Prop. 50 – a statewide redistricting measure on California’s Nov. 4 special election ballot.

The organization High Desert Patriots is throwing a 'No on Prop. 50' protest two weeks before the special election on Nov. 4. According to the group, people who are fed up with skyrocketing costs and government overreach will unite under a common cause. The group is calling for fair elections, the founders told the Daily Press.

Even some champions of California’s citizen-drawn Congressional maps support the Nov. 4 ballot measure to suspend them and counter Trump’s attacks. "The people have to say no, we are going to figure out how to survive,

"Prop. 50 takes us backwards and rips power away from the people," an unidentified woman tells viewers in a recent No on 50 advertisement. Then the declaration "Politicians Can Rig Elections" flashes across the screen in bold red and black text.

Strategists who once thought the president's involvement would make it harder to defeat the gerrymandering measure now think it might be the only thing that can.

Schallhorn and Page covered topics from late voter registration to local impacts from President Trump’s executive order on elections.