Tag: Redistricting In The United States
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Colorado redistricting commissioners deliberated outside public view — after promise of transparency
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
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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Struggle over congressional redistricting plan’s Hispanic voter protections heads to Supreme Court
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Over the past week, Coloradans have seen a new, 8-district congressional map, adopted by the state’s inaugural independent congressional redistricting commission, but whether it actually becomes the state’s next congressional map is still uncertain. The new redistricting process, which follows from ballot measures that amended…
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Colorado congressional redistricting commission adopts final map
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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Final Colorado congressional redistricting plan to come Tuesday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent congressional redistricting commissioners will either vote to adopt a redrawn map of the state’s U.S. House districts Tuesday, or else the most recent map drawn by their staff and released last week will be adopted by default. The commission held a lengthy meeting…
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Colorado congressional redistricting commission’s latest map refines ‘southern district’ concept
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…