Seal Beach Residents May Lose Representation in State Senate

The Orange County Register and the Riverside Press-Enterprise collaborated this week on a little known electoral glitch that could leave millions of Californians, including Seal Beach residents, without a representative in the state Senate in 2013-2014.

According to an analysis by the newspapers, 3.97 million Californians may go without a Senate representative while another 3.9 million residents could get two senators.

It’s a temporary phenomenon resulting from this year’s redistricting process, and it’s happened in the past when legislative districts were redrawn. For more about it, read the article here.