Tag: Redistricting Commission
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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 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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Redistricting commission vote extended late into Tuesday night
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 commissioners met Tuesday night to select a final plan for the state’s remapped U.S. House districts — but by the time of publication, they hadn’t yet selected a final map. The 12…
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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 Commissions to hold hearings in Commerce City, Brighton and Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s Independent Redistricting Commissions will this week be touring the Front Range to hold public hearings on preliminary maps released earlier this summer. The commissions responsible for drawing the preliminary lines for the state’s eight…
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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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Redistricting commissions’ maps ripped in Arvada
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent redistricting commissioners got an earful Tuesday night in Arvada — from the biggest crowd yet at a public input hearing — about the preliminary draft maps unveiled in June. It was the first public input hearing in a metro area, after the first three, held over…