redistricting

After a day and a half of hearing arguments about how legislative and congressional district lines should be drawn, special master Tom Sheets asked the warring parties on Tuesday to instead work th...

CARSON CITY – The business of drawing new political boundaries will now get under way by three court-appointed special masters following two days of public hearings on what Nevada’s legislative and congressional districts should look like for the next decade.
The clock is ticking.

The Nevada Supreme Court Friday refused to issue orders preventing the special masters charged with drawing redistricting maps from starting that process until legal issues in the case are resolved...

CARSON CITY – The Nevada Supreme Court today issued an order instructing Secretary of State Ross Miller to supplement the petition filed by his office earlier this week asking the court to intervene in the redistricting issue now in Carson City District Court.

Secretary of State Ross Miller has filed an emergency writ asking the Nevada Supreme Court to order Judge Todd Russell to make a series of legal rulings in the reapportionment/redistricting case.Af...

Carson District Judge Todd Russell Wednesday told lawyers arguing the redistricting case and his team of special masters he wants to see the first maps by Oct. 21.Russell also set two public hearin...

CARSON CITY – Racial gerrymandering, fracturing, packing, nesting – a three-hour hearing today in Carson City District Court over how to draw Nevada’s new political boundaries was full of arcane concepts and obscure terminology.
The much anticipated ruling from Judge James Todd Russell on guidelines for drawing those new districts will have major ramifications, however, for the state’s voters and its two major political parties.

RENO (AP) - Nevada Democrats and Republicans going before a state judge this week in a legal battle over redistricting are accusing each other of trying to manipulate the boundaries of new congress...

Briefs by both the Republicans and Democrats in the redistricting battle focus on how to best protect the rights of Hispanics and where to start the process of drawing congressional and legislative...

CARSON CITY – Assembly Speaker and announced candidate for Congress John Oceguera acknowledged today that a number of Democrats are seeking seats in the House of Representatives in the 2012 election, and that hopefully any costly primary battles can be avoided.

District Judge Todd Russell has named three people including Carson Clerk/Recorder Alan Glover as masters to handle the process of redistricting both Nevada's four seats in the House of Representat...

CARSON CITY – State officials and lawmakers are rejecting the suggestion that they acted improperly last year when fees generated from several college savings programs were shifted to shore up the cash-strapped Gov. Guinn Millennium Scholarship for academically eligible Nevada high school graduates.
But one former lawmaker, who voted for the transfer, acknowledges he remains concerned about the decision.

Republicans, Democrats and Nevada's secretary of state took very different approaches in recommending who should be named special masters to draw legislative and congressional districts for the com...

CARSON CITY - Secretary of State Ross Miller submitted a roster of candidates Wednesday to serve on a court-appointed panel to redraw Nevada's voting districts, and said the judge could consider or...

CARSON CITY – Term limited Assembly Speaker John Oceguera, D-Las Vegas, today announced he will run for Congress in one of four districts that have yet to be finalized in Nevada’s contested redistricting process.
Oceguera, a native fourth-generation Nevadan, said he wants to bring his skills in finding compromise on difficult issues honed in the Nevada Legislature over the past nearly dozen years to the House of Representatives.

CARSON CITY – Efforts to resolve Nevada’s redistricting impasse remain a work in progress after a proposal floated Tuesday by a Carson City judge to use county election officials to draw new legislative and congressional lines ran into some opposition.
The job of redrawing Nevada’s political lines has fallen to District Judge James Todd Russell after two Democrat-approved redistricting plans were vetoed by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Sandoval vetoed the measures after concluding the proposals did not follow the federal Voting Rights Act.

District Judge Todd Russell said Tuesday that he would name a team of four or five "masters" to draw legislative and congressional maps for the coming decade.But unlike many other states, Russell w...

A few years ago, I sat in on a meeting of local Carson City Democrats and their guest speaker for the night, Republican State Sen. Mark Amodei.

RENO – For the three leading Republican candidates seeking the Congressional District 2 seat vacated with the appointment of Dean Heller to the U.S. Senate, it was all about qualifications and experience in a debate held here Wednesday.
State Republican Party Chairman Mark Amodei, a former state senator, state Sen. Greg Brower, appointed to fill the seat formerly held by retired Sen. Bill Raggio, and retired Navy commander Kirk Lippold, faced off ahead of a GOP meeting Saturday in Sparks that could determine which candidate will get the party nod.

Kudos and a tip of the hat to the members of the 176th Legislative Session that grappled with a horrendous amount of issues of which the budget was the showstopper, with redistricting playing secon...

Kudos and a tip of the hat to the members of the 176th Legislative Session that grappled with a horrendous amount of issues of which the budget was the showstopper, with redistricting playing secon...

Gov. Brian Sandoval Thursday issued a statement further ensuring that redistricting for legislative and congressional seats will be handled in the Nevada Supreme Court."As the Legislature has now a...

A second attempt to redraw Nevada voting districts got final legislative approval Wednesday on another party line vote, sending it on its way to Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval and another likely ve...

A partisan and ethnically charged fight over drawing Nevada's legislative and congressional districts is flaring up once again after what appeared might be a breakthrough. Democrats on Friday annou...

CARSON CITY — Republicans today announced they have released to the public a set of complicated data about their redistricting proposal.
Democrats had said earlier the release of the data is a requirement before the two parties can begin to work toward a compromise.
The release of the data brightens an otherwise gloomy portrait of partisanship. Republicans and Democrats have so far elected not to negotiate terms in the redistricting battle.

CARSON CITY – After Republican legislators declined to reveal exact data for their redistricting proposal, Democrats refused to give the bill a hearing today.
Then, Democratic legislators voted over Republican objections to pass their own redistricting proposal to a vote on the Senate floor.

The Legislative session is due to end in just three weeks and there is no compromise in sight on the two-year budget or on redistricting. The latter may end up in the courts, and the delay will hav...

Democrats are trying their hand again at redrawing Nevada's congressional districts after Gov. Brian Sandoval called their first maps unfair and illegal and vetoed the plans last week. The Assembly...

Democrats on an Assembly committee took another stab Tuesday at a redistricting bill three days after Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed the first one, calling it illegal and unfair.AB566 was...

CARSON CITY — Since the governor did not like their last redistricting plan, Democrats are trying again with revisions to their redistricting maps.
Gov. Brian Sandoval earlier vetoed the Democratic plan for the boundaries of political districts, which must be redrawn every 10 years according to U.S. Census demographic data.