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Today in How To LA: Navigating the process of city redistricting, in-person voting begins Saturday; plus, this weekend has a plethora of things to do to celebrate Halloween and honor Día de los Muertos.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve become somewhat of a local politics junkie. Between the sheriff department's unusual investigation into a Los Angeles County Supervisor and the L.A. City Council leaked tape, there’s so much to dissect about how these government agencies are supposed to be run and what the people in charge of them are actually doing.All of these things are happening right before a pivotal election where we’re deciding things like who will be L.A.’s new mayor after 9 years of Eric Garcetti and whether to keep a sheriff in office who has a history of controversial, adversarial actions.
Right now, the state has an investigation underway into the redistricting process and L.A. City Attorney Mike Feur called for a special election next spring to get voters to approve a new . After listening to three city council members — who represent about 260,000 people each — spout racist remarks and talk openly about manipulating those districts, my colleagues and I wanted to know more about redistricting and the steps to it.Del Río is a political consultant who was active last year in the city’s 2021 redistricting efforts.. That information comes from the most recent U.S. Census.