Tag: Legislative Redistricting Commission
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Safe or competitive Seats: What kind of legislative districts do you live in?
Ballots for the June 28 primary elections in Colorado will be mailed to voters the week of June 6. That means now is the time for you to start preparing to cast a meaningful vote in those elections. By a meaningful vote, we mean a vote that will actually help to decide who will represent…
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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 high court swirls around redistricting criteria in final oral arguments
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday questioned the legislative redistricting plan adopted by the state’s inaugural independent legislative redistricting commission, during oral arguments in a legal struggle that’s developed in the high court’s chambers over the exact meaning of the constitutional redistricting amendments approved in 2018. The state supreme court’s review of the redistricting plans…
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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…
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ANALYSIS | Proposed legislative draft maps from Colorado redistricting commission show Dems lose ground in House
Early analysis of the preliminary draft of maps for the state Senate and House show that there will be plenty of competition, mostly between incumbents, and often within the same party. What was released by Colorado’s legislative redistricting commission on Tuesday is only a “starting point” map, like the preliminary draft congressional map released last…
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State redistricting commissions rebuke lawmakers’ ‘unconstitutional infringement’ in census matter
Colorado’s two independent redistricting commissions have two words for state lawmakers: Hands off. In legal briefs filed by the two commissions, they wrote that state lawmakers overstepped their boundaries when they quickly advanced a piece of legislation that would change the redistricting process overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2018. Now they want the Colorado Supreme…