Participate in your own state's redistricting process taking place this year-- it's a voting right!

From the San Francisco BayView, which offers reader commenting:

"Redistricting, the process of re-drawing district boundaries to ensure equal representation, occurs every 10 years, following the U.S. Census.
State legislatures in many states have used redistricting to minimize and/or deny racial and ethnic minorities their right to representation. They do this by drawing lines through a given community to disable that group’s collective voting power, or by packing them into as few districts as possible to ensure their voice is small in Sacramento and Washington.
In these cases, we end up not much better off than when we didn’t have the right to vote at all. ...The result of this new redistricting procedure should be a more open and transparent process. The commission is even required to hold public hearings to hear from the people about where we think the lines should be drawn. The question now is, will we show up?"

The 10-year redistricting process happens in every state this year, and, in some states, next year also.  Make your voice heard, as your state's final decisions may affect the representation of your own votes.

 
Remember, "voting turnout and activism means spreading the word!"