redistricting
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Colorado’s next legislative map will count prisoners at their homes, not where they’re jailed
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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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Redistricting commissioners plan to ask state Supreme Court for respite on hearings, deadlines
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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…
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TRAIL MIX | No easy answers with debut of initial legislative maps
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Unlike last week’s release of a draft congressional district map by Colorado’s Independent Redistricting Commission, this week’s unveiling of preliminary maps outlining state House and Senate districts provoked more questions than bold diagnoses and heated declarations. That’s probably a function of the main difference between the maps. With just eight districts, including the long-anticipated suggested…
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ANALYSIS | Proposed legislative draft maps from Colorado redistricting commission show Dems lose ground in House
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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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‘Starting point’ for Colorado’s 8-district congressional map unveiled
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Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission debuted the “starting point” congressional district map, with eight districts instead of seven and that will be altered and adjusted over the coming months, before settling on a final version of the map this fall. The map revealed Wednesday represents a best attempt by the commission’s staff at creating a population-balanced…
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NOONAN | Y and Z’s competitive districts would have to cut across common interests
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Amendments Y and Z on congressional and state legislature redistricting propose to take the politics out of redrawing district boundaries based on the 2020 census. The amendments operate on the correct premise that current redistricting procedures generally pit the two parties against each other to create the most districts that heavily favor their party. This…
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Schwarzenegger endorses reform measures to ‘terminate gerrymandering’
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Hasta la vista, gerrymandering. Arnold Schwarzenegger threw his support behind Colorado ballot amendments Y and Z Friday, noting that all of Colorado’s living governors are backing the measures to change how the state draws political boundaries. “We’re going to terminate gerrymandering together by fighting for campaigns in four states,” said the actor and former California…
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Supreme Court sidesteps decision on partisan gerrymandering
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a decision on when partisan gerrymandering of electoral districts goes too far, ruling against the challengers of a Republican-drawn map in Wisconsin and a Democratic redistricting in Maryland. The decisions in the separate cases once again puts off a decision on when courts can find that partisan efforts…
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Lawmakers kick off Colo. anti-gerrymandering campaign, with gov. on board
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Senate President Kevin Grantham, a Republican, and House Speaker Crisanta Duran, a Democrat, signed resolutions Wednesday to ask voters to put more balance in how legislative and congressional districts are drawn. In November Coloradans will decide if independent commissions should do that job or leave the task to politicians and judges after the census every…
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Colorado redistricting resolutions head to the ballot
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Two resolutions that could help create commissions to draw political boundaries for the Colorado legislature and the state’s members of Congress are headed to the ballot. Monday morning the state House of Representatives passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, which refer respective ballot questions on legislative and congressional redistricting to the November…
