(As I said, all 77, all the time – promoted by SFBrianCL)

Not that it should really affect the outcome either way, but there was an article in the LA Times about the actual nuts and bolts of getting the state ready for Prop 77.  However, I think the more important part comes later (see the bold)

It’s hellacious for us,” said Stephen L. Weir, Contra Costa County registrar. “The rules under which we’d have to operate are pretty much impossible.”

Proposition 77 would require three retired judges to redraw California’s political districts “for use at the next statewide primary and general elections,” presumably June and November 2006.

The drawing of new districts wouldn’t take long. Some experts say it could be done in a few days with computer mapping software.

But for the people who oversee county elections, getting new boundaries for 120 Senate and Assembly seats, 53 congressional seats and four Board of Equalization districts would merely be a first step. They would have to redraw 25,000 precincts to fit the new districts, reassign polling places and tell voters how to find them.

All of that would have to be done by March so sample ballots could be prepared and mailed before the June election. Officials probably wouldn’t get new maps until late December.

Political districts are usually redrawn by the Legislature once every decade, based on new census data, and then county officials have months to update their systems to match the maps. Opponents of Proposition 77 say that pattern should continue, because an estimated 3 million residents are new to California since lines were last drawn in 2001.

As I’ve said before, I support the concept of reform of the redistricting process (i.e. Reform Ohio Now), but how this is accomplished through Prop 77 is wrong.  However we do draw the map, whether it is through the new retired judge panel or whatever, it should be done after 2010.