On the City of Anaheim – on the City Clerk’s page, to be specific – there is a cool interactive map that makes it simple for residents to figure out in which council district they live.  This comes in handy since this is the first time Anaheim voters are electing their council via by-district elections, and it’s a certainty many ...

The “People’s Map” pushed by a coalition of left-wing pressure groups has taken a largely nominal city-wide Democratic voter registration advantage in Anaheim and converted it into large Democratic advantages in five of the six council districts.  This should come as a surprise to no one since that was always the objective of the campaign for by-district elections, notwithstanding the ...

The Advisory Committee of six retired Superior Court judges has set the dates for a series of public hearings at which the public can provide their input into where the boundaries of the coming council districts should be drawn. Per the City of Anaheim’s press release: During the first organizational meeting to gather input on drawing Anaheim’s City Council voting ...

The city will begin holding a series of community meetings where the public can give its input on the boundaries of the six single-member council districts into which Anaheim will be carved due to the passage last year of Measures L and M. From the City of Anaheim: Anaheim’s current At-Large electoral system will, for the first time, change to ...

Among the items of Tuesday’s city council agenda was constituting the membership of the Advisory Committee that will work with staff to draw the lines for six single-member council districts, per Measures L and M that were passed by Anaheim voters last November. As I noted on Tuesday, fourteen retired judges applied to be on the committee. Only one, retired ...

When the City of Anaheim and the ACLU and plaintiffs Jose F. Moreno et al agreed to settle the litigation and place by-district council elections on the November 2014 ballot, part of the agreement stated that an Advisory Committee of retired judges would assist in the drawing of council districts if the voters approved going in that direction. Measure L ...

After reading Chris Nguyen’s analysis of which sections of Anaheim voted for whom, an insightful reader shared with us a different take on the numbers: Chris Nguyen’s analysis missed one key point for the future: turnout levels. Looking just at the numbers in the post, a total of 16,127 votes for Mayor were cast in the Hills, while a total ...

Gloria Ma’ae is a long-time resident of Anaheim’s flatlands who is active in the civic affairs of the city. When the City Council appointed the Anahem Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) on Elections and Public Participation in 2012 following the ACLU-Jose F. Moreno lawsuit seeking the imposition of by-district council elections without a vote of the people, Gloria applied and was ...

Ron Bengochea is a life-long resident of Anaheim and a committed (although I believe now retired) union member and activist. I add the latter for those tempted to dismiss him as “Tea Partier.”  He was one of the few Anaheim residents to faithfully attend meetings of the Anaheim Citizens Advisory Committee on Elections, at which he always took the opportunity ...

The Orange County Labor Federation’s (OCLF) top two 2014 election priorities are: 1) Re-Elect Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva 2) Adoption of by-district council elections in Anaheim. This is according a presentation in January 2014 – several days after the City of Anaheim-ACLU settlement agreement placing by-district elections on the ballot – by the OCLF, entitled “Analysis of the 2014 Elections In ...