Colorado group pursues ballot measure to pave the way for a new congressional map

Source: NBC News

Feb. 18, 2026, 11:18 AM EST


A new Colorado group launched an effort Wednesday to place an initiative on the ballot this year to pave the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats for the 2028 and 2030 elections.

Coloradans for a Level Playing Field, a group that formed earlier this month, is hoping voters will approve a measure to temporarily bypass the state's independent redistricting commission as a response to Republican-led states redrawing maps over the last year.

“No one wanted to have to take this action — independent redistricting is the ideal,” the group’s spokesperson, Curtis Hubbard, said in a statement. “We can sit back and do nothing, or we can take action to approve temporary maps that will help keep our elections on a level playing field.”

The group is proposing several measures for the November ballot. The ultimate goal is to enact a redrawn congressional map that would create seven Democratic-leaning districts and one Republican-leaning district for the next two election cycles, and then reimpose an independent redistricting commission after the 2030 census. The state's congressional delegation is currently split evenly between the two parties. The group will need to gather roughly 125,000 signatures for one of the initiatives to qualify for the ballot.

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