Democrats offer redistricting plan

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Senate Democrats unveiled their own plan Tuesday to overhaul California's system of drawing political boundaries, legislation that would compete with an all-or-nothing initiative on the Nov. 8 special election ballot.
Both proposals target the state's once-a-decade redistricting by the Legislature, which has produced so few competitive districts that none of 153 California congressional or legislative seats at stake last year changed party hands.

A key difference, however, is that the new Senate proposal would begin redistricting in 2011 - after the next federal census - while the ballot initiative calls for lines to be redrawn immediately