If justices had sided with state lawmakers in North Carolina, Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission could have simply been overruled by the legislature
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Weld County ignored a new Colorado law when redrawing its commissioner districts. Now it may face legal action.
House Bill 1047, passed in 2021, aimed to require Weld County to follow certain steps when drawing new county commissioner district boundaries. That didn’t happen.
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Heidi Ganahl selects Danny Moore, Navy veteran who was removed as head of redistricting panel, as her running mate
Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl on Monday announced Danny Moore as her running mate, a Navy veteran and entrepreneur who stoked controversy last year when he was removed as head of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission over his social media posts about the 2020 presidential election. “Danny is a wonderful addition to our winning team,” […]
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Littwin: Did Colorado Democrats give up too much with redistricting?
Did Colorado Democrats who signed on to and voted for Amendments Y and Z in 2018 — ordering the formation of independent redistricting commissions — do the right thing in giving up their power to draw their own congressional and legislative lines for the coming decade? The answer is yes, although maybe not an unqualified […]
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These Colorado legislative districts are poised to be the new battlegrounds after redistricting
The new Colorado House and Senate maps drawn through the once-in-a-decade redistricting process would shift the state’s legislative battlegrounds. The maps still need final approval from the Colorado Supreme Court, but if they are adopted fights for control of the General Assembly would likely no longer be mostly contained to the Denver area. For instance, […]
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Nicolais: Colorado won with new redistricting commissions
Three years ago, Colorado voters approved the first major overhaul to the decennial redistricting process — redrawing congressional and legislative district boundaries — in a half century. With the new maps submitted to the state Supreme Court for review, it is apparent that Coloradans made the right choice. More than the maps themselves, the process […]
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Littwin: Colorado GOP may get the best redistricting map it could have hoped for. What are the chances they’ll blow it?
If there’s anything we’ve learned from the great Colorado redistricting experiment, it’s this: Drawing lines is hard in any case, and drawing them fairly is that much harder. That’s not a surprise. The problem with fairness as a proposition is that it’s difficult to even define, much less achieve. But that was the goal — […]
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8 takeaways from Colorado’s new congressional map
Some folks are loving the new, eight-district congressional map approved by Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission in an 11-1 vote late Tuesday. Others, not so much. But it’s been clear from the start of the process that not everyone would be happy with how a new map would end up. The proposal must be approved […]
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The latest draft of Colorado’s congressional map could become the final version. Here’s where the districts would be.
Colorado’s newest U.S. House district would be the state’s most competitive — and the most Hispanic — under the latest congressional map draft released Thursday. The map would avoid putting any of the state’s seven incumbent House members in the same district. It would create three safe Republican districts, three safe Democratic districts, a 7th […]
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Democrats poised to keep control of Colorado legislature under latest draft redistricting maps
The latest draft maps of Colorado’s new state Senate and House districts would make it difficult for Republicans to challenge Democratic control of the legislature, according to analysis of the proposals released Monday. Under the new maps, the 35-seat state Senate would include 15 safe Democratic districts, 10 safe Republican districts and 10 competitive districts, […]