Author: Evan Wyloge
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With new state House and Senate maps, let the games begin
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The wait is over. And the scramble has begun. Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved new state House and Senate maps, candidates are crafting designs to run for more competitive seats that also appear to shrink the influence of rural communities at the state…
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Colorado legislative redistricting maps OK’d by state Supreme Court
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court announced Monday its stamp of approval for the recently redrawn state House and Senate maps, establishing the legislative maps that will be used for the next decade and largely marking an end to the once-per-decade redistricting process. The approval by the…
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Colorado redistricting commissioners deliberated outside public view — after promise of transparency
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s new independent redistricting commission came with a promise of transparency and public inclusion, but in the days leading up to their adoption of a set of legislative maps, commissioners spent significant time working outside of public meetings. In the final two weeks of the…
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Colorado legislative redistricting commission adopts new state Senate map
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s 12 legislative redistricting commissioners voted unanimously late Tuesday night to adopt a new state Senate district map, after an eleventh-hour map alteration session on their final day of redistricting work. The map will have to be reviewed and approved by the Colorado Supreme Court…
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Colorado Supreme Court contemplates fate of congressional redistricting commission’s adopted map
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Attorneys sparred Tuesday before the Colorado Supreme Court, debating how far the state’s new redistricting commission must go to empower minority voters and whether its congressional map should be used for the next decade. Debate centered on a key passage from the voter-approved amendments that…
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Colorado legislative redistricting commission releases possibly final maps
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s legislative redistricting commissions on Tuesday released what could be adopted as the group’s final state House and Senate maps, if the commission cannot support an alternative. The maps released this week are the “third staff plan” draft maps, and they are the final set…
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Struggle over congressional redistricting plan’s Hispanic voter protections heads to Supreme Court
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Over the past week, Coloradans have seen a new, 8-district congressional map, adopted by the state’s inaugural independent congressional redistricting commission, but whether it actually becomes the state’s next congressional map is still uncertain. The new redistricting process, which follows from ballot measures that amended…