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In November, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, with the backing of a hundred-and-twenty-two-million-dollar campaign, helped persuade a majority of the state’s voters to approve a ballot measure making the map official.—Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 That is partly because many voters choose to live in communities with like-minded people, making many areas more politically homogenous and less competitive.—Ashley Wu, New York Times, 18 May 2026 Between 2020 and 2024, more than twice as many Republican transplants than Democrats moved to Florida, according to voter and consumer data company L2, as DeSantis touted the state's lack of COVID restrictions and pushed a strongly conservative agenda.—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 17 May 2026 These platforms rest on an assumption that proactive state policy can significantly improve living standards, not merely soften an inevitable downturn, and offer voters more optimistic — if sharply divergent — diagnoses and cures than the pervasive resignation captured in the article.—Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for voter