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Rough drafts of Colorado’s new state General Assembly district maps were revealed during the Independent Legislative Redistricting Commission’s meeting on Tuesday. This map is not final. It’s a starting point for the commission to hit the road and receive feedback from residents in about 32 public comment meetings held across the state starting July 9.
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A rough draft of Colorado’s new congressional district map was revealed during the Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission’s meeting on Wednesday. This map is not final. It’s a starting point for the commission to hit the road and receive feedback from residents in about 32 public comment meetings held across the state starting July 9.
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2020 census results were supposed to come out in December, as mandated by the Constitution. The Census Bureau recently announced plans to release the first-round of results by April 30. Disruptions and accuracy concerns swirled around last year’s count and, for some, those concerns remain. The delay may help the Bureau fix some issues, but will also cause problems for the state’s redistricting plans and tax allocation process, and could affect local efforts like fire recovery.
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Our region has attracted the attention of the Terminator.“I’m right now on a campaign to terminate gerrymandering,” said Arnold Schwarzenegger in a video…
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A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers kicked off an anti-gerrymandering campaign this month. They want to take redistricting decisions out of the hands…
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While the decision does not do away with the landmark law entirely, it rendered an enforcement mechanism moot unless Congress acts.
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Voters in the state took the job of drawing district lines out of the hands of legislators and instead created an independent commission. But the resulting maps still sparked legal challenges and charges of a tainted process.
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A lawsuit over congressional district lines in Florida produces emails showing coordination between lawmakers and Republican Party officials, which is prohibited by the state Constitution.
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Some analysts are saying that Republicans appear to have the long-range advantage over Democrats when it comes to winning enough seats to control the House, not so much because of redistricting but because of the clustering of Democratic voters in fewer congressional districts.
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Redistricting is forcing a handful of congressional incumbents of the same party to run against each other in primaries. Next Tuesday, two Illinois Republicans square off in a battle of experience versus relative youth, Tea Party versus GOP establishment, and conservative versus conservative.