gerrymandering
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Colorado Supreme Court tells Weld County to follow state redistricting law
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Weld County must comply with the state law governing how boards of county commissioners are to draw their districts, and the county needs to adopt new maps by next year’s election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Following the 2020 census, it was undisputed that Weld County did not follow the procedures for how…
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Redistricting is coming to a Colorado city near you. Find times and locations here.
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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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State Supreme Court scrutinizes legislators’ redistricting proposal
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Colorado’s highest court on Monday heard arguments over whether state legislators have the authority to enact a law that would adjust the voter-approved state redistricting process, with several justices skeptical of the legality or prudence of lawmakers’ proposal. At issue is a bill advanced by lawmakers that aims to keep the state’s redistricting commissioners on…
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State redistricting commissions rebuke lawmakers’ ‘unconstitutional infringement’ in census matter
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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…
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A Texas billionaire couple is fighting gerrymandering in Colorado
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By David A. Lieb, Associated Press A growing movement to curb partisan gerrymandering will be put to the test Tuesday by several state ballot measures – including two in Colorado – that are intended to overhaul the way congressional and state legislative districts are drawn. While they differ in how to do that, the proposals…
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Schwarzenegger to rally in Colorado for anti-gerrymandering amendments
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is coming to Colorado Oct. 20 rally supporters of two ballot proposals to curb gerrymandering, amendments Y and Z. The time and location are still in the works, but the details should be sorted out in the next few days, including the public event, a campaign official confirmed. Supporters were told in a…
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WATCH: Ken Buck calls out ‘cheaters’ in anti-gerrymandering ad
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Conservatives such as Doug Bruce might be grumbling about bipartisan ballot measures to tackle gerrymandering, but U.S. Rep. Ken Buck put his uber-conservative stamp of approval on amendments Y and Z in a new TV ad. Buck is a member of the U.S. House Freedom Caucus, the lawmakers usually the farthest to the right. RELATED:…
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Bruce says Republicans were bamboozled on gerrymandering
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The inimitable tax-hating ex-con Douglas Bruce is coming out swinging late in the campaign fight on issues he can’t stand. The author of the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights has written his own voter’s guide on a handful of issues. He says it will soon be posted online. The former El Paso County commissioner and…
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Colo. gerrymandering amendments hitting the airwaves
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Democratic state House Speaker Crisanta Duran and rising-star Republican Heidi Ganahl are making the opening TV pitches for amendments Y and Z, the ballot questions aimed at curbing gerrymandering in Colorado. Fair Maps Colorado, the bipartisan organization driving the so-far-unopposed measures, is expected to announce a six-figure ad buy in television markets across the state…
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COVER STORY | Drawing the line on gerrymandering
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Democratic and Republican leaders in Colorado have at least one thing in common: Neither side trusts each other or the courts to be fairer to Colorado voters than Colorado voters would be to themselves. That’s the idea driving amendments Y and Z on the state’s November ballot to allow independent commissions to draw electoral district…
