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Lidia Gonzalez still lives in the same part of Delano she did a year ago. But even though she’s in the same place, she says one big thing is different- the district she lives in and the Kern County supervisor who represents her. She says it’s not just the districts that changed, but how the people in them are responding to the changes. “Now community members are being more outspoken,” Gonzalez says. “They’re organizing, they’re going out to these Board of Supervisor meetings, budget hearings, anything possible they’re trying to include themselves in these spaces where usually they’re not included.” November’s election marks the first time some people in Kern County will vote for their county supervisor since the redistricting of county lines. A lawsuit filed in U.S District Court two years ago by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, or MALDEF, against Kern County and the Board of Supervisors alleged the way district lines were drawn violated the Voting Rights Act.
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