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After months of waiting, Colorado finally got the local Census population counts needed to draw congressional and state general assembly electoral districts on Thursday. The massive delay has caused a lot of unexpected problems for the state’s brand new independent redistricting commissions. This new set of local data show the ways Colorado’s population has really changed over the last decade.

“We cannot stand by the accuracy of this data, but we believe that this is a reasonable first effort,” said Jessica Shipley, director of commission non-partisan staff, during the Tuesday morning meeting. “Our first mandate when creating these plans was to create equal population districts with no more than a 5% deviation between the smallest and largest districts.” Staff were particularly uncertain about the accuracy of population data in the proposed state House of Representatives map, because its districts are the smallest of all three maps and could be more vulnerable to local-leve...

Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission 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 far from final. It’s a starting point for the commission to hit the road and receive feedback from residents in 32 public comment meetings held across the state starting July 9. Also, this preliminary map was made with estimated data rather than the full 2020 Census count data, The final version will be chosen by commissioners after they work with staff to create updated ...