In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 11’s call for a commission that “reflects this state’s diversity, including, but not limited to, racial, ethnic, geographic, and gender.” In its work so far this year, the State Auditor’s Applicant Review Panel clearly achieved that goal.
California’s Applicant Review Panel meets today to finalize the 120 Citizens Redistricting Commission applicants whom the ARP will invite for interviews. On Monday, ARP identified the 40 “other” (not registered with the Republican party or with the Democratic party) applicants invited for interviews. On Tuesday the ARP identified the 40 Republicans it will interview. The [...]
Today California’s Applicant Review Panel meets with the goal of identifying the 120 individuals the panel will invite for interviews. Follow the action on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RoseInstitute or watch the live meeting here. These 120 semi-finalists, consisting of 40 Democrats, 40 Republicans, and 40 voters not registered with either major party, will then be interviewed in [...]
In Florida, Judge James Shelfer removed redistricting-related Amendment 7 from the November ballot. Judge Shelfer ruled that the Republican-controlled state legislature’s proposed Amendment 7’s “failure to inform the public [was] clearly and convincingly an attempt to hide the ball” about the measure’s true aims. The legislature put Amendment 7 on the ballot in response to [...]
On July 1st, the brief application period for the City of San Diego redistricting commission began. Applications will be accepted until August 2nd. The criteria and selection process are detailed in Section 5.1 of the City Charter, available here. Application forms are available at the website of the City Clerk.
San Diego’s City Charter requires that a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 officials [...]
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 Tony [...]
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 [...]
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