A roster of the current 622 applicants for California’s Citizens Redistricting is posted online here. We will update it live as the Applicant Review Panel (ARP) makes its decisions. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Rose Report
Diversity and the CA Redistricting Commission
On Tuesday, California’s Applicant Review Panel sits down to narrow the pool of remaining applicants. The Panel’s responsibility, under the regulations adopted by the State Auditor, include ensuring the final pool reasonably reflects California’s complex diversity. As stated in Proposition 11, California’s diversity is defined as “including, but not limited to, racial, ethnic, geographic, and… Continue Reading
Colorado Chief Justice Retires–Will It Impact Redistricting in 2011?
Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey, who according to Colorado’s state constitution was set to appoint four members to the state’s redistricting commission in 2011, announced her retirement on June 4, after 23 years on the Court. At the age of 66, she is the longest-tenured chief justice in Colorado history, as well as the… Continue Reading
Priority Treatment Helped Anti-Redistricting Commission Initiative Qualify
Sponsors of the initiative to modify California’s legislative term limit laws may be wondering what they did to annoy California’s county registrars. Despite filing their petitions with the counties in April, the registrars were unable to complete the signature verification process in time for the measure to qualify for the November 2010 election. Meanwhile elections… Continue Reading
Breaking News: initiative to abolish CA Redistricting Commission qualifies for November
The Institute will have more to say on this in coming days, but at 8pm on the last possible day, with barely 1,330 signatures to spare, the Pelosi/Berman initiative to abolish California’s not-yet-formed Citizens Redistricting Commission qualified for the November 2010 ballot. (Hat tip to Rose Board Member and co-editor of the California Target Report… Continue Reading
FairDistricts Conflict Escalates in Florida
In Florida, the question of how best to protect minority interests in redistricting recently escalated into a heated statewide debate over redistricting. At the forefront is outspoken Democratic Representative Corrine Brown, who has filed a lawsuit to take Amendment 6 (the FairDistricts Florida ballot initiative that would reform the criteria for drawing congressional  districts) off… Continue Reading
CA Narrows Pool of Redistricting Commission Applicants
Earlier this week, California’s Applicant Review Panel (ARP) narrowed the number of Citizens Redistricting Commission applicants down to 622. The pool started with 24,932 Californians completing the Stage 1 application. Of those, 4,564 completed the more extensive Stage 2 application. Now the ARP will gradually reduce the number of applicants to 60. Asian-Americans, residents of… Continue Reading
Redistricting Amendment Lawsuits Filed in Florida
Two of Florida’s Members of Congress filed a lawsuit to take redistricting reform off the state’s November 2010 ballot. Representatives Corrine Brown (D-Jacksonville) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Miami) oppose Amendment 6 to the Florida Constitution, which, combined with the preceding Amendment 5, is known as the FairDistricts proposal. Diaz-Balart asserts that he and Representative Brown are filing the lawsuit to… Continue Reading
CA Ballots Left to Count: Friday Update
Our earlier estimates were too low: as of June 10th, California has over 1.33 million ballots left to count from Tuesday’s primary election. Rose Institute researchers Daniel Shane and Ruth Oliver confirmed “uncounted ballot” counts from 55 of the 58 counties. Only Sonoma,  Mono and Modoc have not yet responded to our inquiries. . Clearly the… Continue Reading
Narrowing the CA Redistricting Commission applicant pool
California’s Applicant Review Panel is meeting today to review the 4,546 completed applications for the Citizens Redistricting Commission. The agenda suggests the pool may be narrowed down to about 500 today. The agenda is available on the “We Draw the Line” website. A list of the final applicants is also available at that link. Various… Continue Reading