Tag: Electoral Geography
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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 congressional redistricting commission adopts final map
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s inaugural independent congressional redistricting commission wrapped up its work Tuesday night and selected a final congressional map plan to use for the next decade. The map still needs review and approval from the state supreme court, and it’s not yet clear that it will…
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Colorado congressional redistricting commission’s latest map refines ‘southern district’ concept
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission released another new draft map for the public to consider and critique. The newest draft map comes as the commissions near their targeted October finish, and after months of preceding drafts and dozens of public input hearings. The commissions will take…
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Redistricting lobbying laws violated, new complaint alleges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A complaint filed today with the Colorado Secretary of State accuses a group of secretly-funded political operatives of illegally lobbying the state’s redistricting commissioners. The complaint, filed by former Democratic state lawmaker Stanley Matsunaka, accuses former Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty and former Colorado House and…
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Redistricting is coming to a Colorado city near you. Find times and locations here.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This article has been updated with the times and locations of public meetings. Have opinions on what the state’s political maps should look like after they get reconfigured this year? Colorado’s redistricting commissions will be touring the state in July and August, looking for your…
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Scrutiny aimed at redistricting commission’s maps over minority protections
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Preliminary draft maps unveiled in June by the state’s legislative redistricting commission, if not adjusted, could violate federal civil rights laws, two state lawmakers said this week, by splitting minority communities in some parts of…
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Congressional redistricting commission OKs drafting maps without census data
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent congressional redistricting commission voted Monday to begin drawing draft congressional maps that rely on survey data and estimates, due to a months-long delay in the U.S. Census Bureau’s normal decennial census data. The…
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Redistricting commissions scramble for voice in supreme court’s census fix consideration
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent redistricting commissions have hired attorneys days before a crucial legal deadline in a fast-moving state supreme court case that could alter the once-in-a-decade political map drawing process. Hiring lawyers who will advise the commissions and represent them in legal matters, like the one…