Colorado Supreme Court rejects efforts to put redistricting on the ballot
Summary
The Colorado Supreme Court rejected five ballot measures that aimed to change how congressional districts are drawn in Colorado. These measures were designed to favor either Democrats or Republicans but were blocked because they violated Colorado’s rule that ballot measures must focus on only one subject.Key Facts
- The court shot down five redistricting ballot measures: three by Democrats and two by Republicans.
- The measures sought to create new maps favoring one party in Colorado’s eight Congressional districts.
- Colorado law requires any ballot measure to cover only one topic, which these measures violated.
- Democrats proposed two linked initiatives (241 and 242) to change the redistricting commission and map temporarily.
- The court said the initiatives contained multiple subjects since each depended on the other to work.
- Republicans had a similar measure (Initiative 328) that was also rejected for the same legal reasons.
- Colorado’s constitution mandates an independent commission redraw districts every 10 years after the census.
- Currently, Colorado’s Congressional delegation is evenly split: four Democrats and four Republicans.
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