Doesn't matter what rules you set up. The left doesn't play by the rules. When Bush won the election, the Left kept trying to "recount the votes" in Florida, and adding more and more votes for Biden, until eventually the government had to step and say "no more fudging the numbers, you have to get on with it". They deposed Republicans out of office in California by rigging ballot boxes. They got abortion legalized through the Supreme Court. If you put abortion to a popular vote, it would lose. California didn't vote to legalize gay marriage; most people hate it. It was legalized through the courts. If you put it to a popular vote, it would lose, and the left knows that. That's why they are trying to change people's attitudes through ideas, but until an idea becomes popular, they must fight through underhanded tactics.
California used to be a hard republican state, but the unchecked influx of illegal immigrants has led to it becoming a blue state. Legally only citizens are supposed to vote, but the police don't check. Someone did the math: if it wasn't for the illegal immigrants voting, Donald Trump would have won California. That is how red California is. The blue is only really in the cesspits that are San Francisco, Hollywood, and Los Angeles. They are in the minority, like the democrats in Texas. If you step out of those three cities, you enter into a normal country. Even the Mexicans like Trump. Even the hippies who smoke pot like Trump. California is like Texas except it just has enough illegal immigrants to make it blue. In order for California to turn red again, you would have to exclude the illegals somehow... except they're already supposed to be excluded. They aren't because the Left are the ones who run the show, even when the Republicans are supposed to be in charge. During the Trump administration, the US military engaged in war in Syria against the President's orders.
The legal system you're taught in school doesn't work. It hasn't for many, many years, and it won't ever work again.