Colorado ballot issue seeks to balance political parties' influence on voting maps

Coloradoan: You'll get an extra say on who your state and federal lawmakers are this November. Sort of.

A pair of proposed amendments to the Colorado Constitution, dubbed Amendments Y and Z, take aim at "the most important voting matter no one has ever heard of," according to one backer. Their target: Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is stacking the deck in favor of one political party by drawing political district maps in its favor. In practice, opponents say, gerrymandering removes the “representative” part of representative democracy.

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