Author: By Evan Wyloge Colorado Politics

Months ahead of any of the actual mapmaking at the center of the once-in-a-decade redistricting process, emerging challenges — from fewer and less diverse applicants for the commissions than hoped for, to problems administering the census caused by the novel coronavirus — have prompted calls to correct course and even contingency plans for possible delays. …

Colorado began accepting applications in early August for the state’s newly-voter-approved independent redistricting commissions, but the responses have been meager, and so far don’t reflect the state’s demographics, skewing older and representing little of the state’s ethnic minority communities.  The low number of applicants and the mismatch between commission applicants and the state’s population have…