Live Twitter Updates

Courts handle New Mexico congressional maps (Assoc. Press)

Courts handle New Mexico congressional maps

By PUBLISHED: Monday, March 31, 2014 at 7:45 am

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s three congressional districts have changed very little in the past two decades; but when they have, state courts — not the Legislature or governor — have redrawn the boundaries.

State district court judges in 2002 and 2011 adopted “least change” redistricting plans that only slightly altered district boundaries to equalize their populations to conform with the legal requirements of one-person, one-vote.

Read more here: http://www.abqjournal.com/376634/abqnewsseeker/courts-handle-new-mexico-congressional-maps.html