Colorado may vote on independent redistricting commission
The Rocky Mountain News reports:
Colorado Common Cause and the League of Women Voters on Tuesday laid the groundwork for taking congressional redistricting out of the hands of state lawmakers.Disgusted with the bitter fighting that erupted both in the Capitol and in the courts this year, the two groups filed papers for a ballot initiative in 2004 asking for a seven-member commission to take over the redistricting chore.
If they get the required 67,829 voters' signatures on petitions, and if voters approve, the commission would go to work after the next census is completed in 2010.