Author: Evan Wyloge
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Census data reveals population adjustments needed in draft maps
Colorado’s redistricting commissioners decided earlier this year to use incomplete and out-of-date data to draw the preliminary draft maps that are being toured around the state for public input. The commissioners knew at the time that their maps would end up needing adjustments, because the official data was bound to be different in some parts…
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Colorado’s next legislative map will count prisoners at their homes, not where they’re jailed
Colorado’s legislative redistricting commissioners voted Friday to reallocate prisoners for the next decade’s state House and Senate districts, meaning they’ll be counted at their home residence and not where they were jailed during the census. Colorado’s congressional redistricting commissioners voted Thursday to not reallocate state prisoners in the drawing of the next decade’s congressional map. …
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2020 Census data report: White population shrinking; redistricting frenzy begins
The U.S. Census Bureau has released the official 2020 census data, providing a detailed snapshot of today’s United States population, and revealing how the nation has changed since the last full census 10 years ago. The new data, which our reporters are currently analyzing, provide numbers of people and households, along with race and ethnicity…
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Latino community advocates: Colorado redistricting plan needs big changes
The Colorado House and Senate district map being toured around the state for public input doesn’t provide adequate voting power to the state’s Hispanic and Latino communities, according to the Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization. The prominent statewide advocacy organization proposed a total overhaul of the proposed legislative district maps, with a special…
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Redistricting is coming to a Colorado city near you. Find times and locations here.
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 input on the congressional and legislative maps they’re redrawing. Starting…
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Map deadline in high court’s redistricting order still TBD, vexing commissions
A Colorado Supreme Court order might have given the state’s redistricting commissioners a little more time to finish their maps, but it’s not entirely clear what the court’s decision on Monday means. Staff and attorneys for the commissions said they will need to talk more with their attorneys at official commission meetings, perhaps in non-public…
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Scrutiny aimed at redistricting commission’s maps over minority protections
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 the state. At issue is the way state House and Senate districts are drawn in areas where Black and Hispanic…
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Redistricting testimony triggers high-profile lobbying disclosure, questions over reporting requirements
Colorado’s independent redistricting commissioners are in the middle of a statewide tour, listening as members of the public give their opinions on what they want the next decade’s congressional and legislative maps to look like. But that isn’t entirely what’s been going on. In at least one example at the commissions’ public input hearing Tuesday…
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Redistricting commissions’ maps ripped in Arvada
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 the weekend in rural, eastern parts of the state. The…
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Redistricting commissioners plan to ask state Supreme Court for respite on hearings, deadlines
Colorado’s independent redistricting commissions are again scrambling to adjust the process and timeline they’re following to redraw the state’s political maps, all caused by a months-long delay in the decennial census. On Monday, the congressional redistricting commission authorized their attorney to draft a pleading they hope to file Tuesday with the Colorado Supreme Court that…