Tag: Jessika Shipley
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Redistricting commissioners clash over prisoner reallocation
Some of the commissioners charged with redrawing Colorado’s congressional maps have raised objections to a law requiring them to count state prisoners where they lived prior to their incarceration, instead of where they’re locked up, drawing sharp responses from members of the panel who back the prisoner reallocation law. While only a minority of commissioners…
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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…
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More redistricting commissioners in Colorado selected, new delays predicted
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Commissioners for Colorado’s first independent citizens redistricting commissions continue to be selected from thousands of applicants, with two Republicans, two Democrats and two nonparty-affiliated voters selected Friday for the legislative redistricting commission. Eventually there will be four Republicans, four Democrats and four unaffiliated commissioners on…