Since 2008, Jeff Schauer has been writing a blog about California politics and government called “California Mwananchi”. Schauer is a lecturer and a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley in history. This April 20 column discusses what California’s election system and its governmental problems.

In addition, here is another blog post about the system, from the Bookwormroom. It presents the perspective of a Republican voter who wants to vote for Republicans in the general election, even in districts in which the party probably won’t win. The columnns discusses the free speech aspects of political campaigns.