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Ohio’s Redistricting Commission unanimously adopts new House and Senate maps in a late night meeting
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously approved new legislative maps late Tuesday night. It was after 10 p.m. when the seven members of the commission… Read More
Ohio Redistricting Commission may add another hearing for comment on legislative maps
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Only a handful of Ohioans showed up at the first public hearing on legislative working maps being considered by the Ohio Redistricting Commission. But… Read More
The Ohio Redistricting Commission adopts GOP-drawn working maps for House and Senate districts
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — After delaying meetings for a week while Republicans fought over leadership of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, the panel met and adopted working maps that favored majority Republicans…. Read More
Ohio’s attorney general rejects language for the political mapmaking reform amendment a second time
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office again rejected petition language Thursday for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state’s troubled system for political mapmaking, frustrating the… Read More
GOP infighting has brought the Ohio Redistricting Commission to a standstill
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s latest attempt to draw fair political maps crumbled amid Republican infighting Wednesday, begging the question of whether the Ohio Redistricting Commission unable even to appoint its… Read More
Unconstitutional congressional map from last year will be used in Ohio next year too
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The 15-member congressional map that was used last year will be used again next year, even though it was ruled unconstitutionally gerrymandered. That’s after… Read More
Voting rights groups ask to dismiss their lawsuit challenging gerrymandered Ohio congressional map
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voting-rights groups moved to dismiss their lawsuit against Ohio’s unconstitutional congressional map on Tuesday, arguing that prolonging the legal wrangling over where to draw district boundaries isn’t… Read More
Ohio’s attorney general rejects language for an amendment aimed at reforming troubled political mapmaking
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office rejected petition language Wednesday for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state’s troubled system for drawing political maps, determining that… Read More
An amendment to create a citizens panel to draw Ohio’s Statehouse and Congressional maps has been filed
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An amendment to create a 15-member citizen-appointed panel to draw state legislative and Congressional maps and remove that power from the Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting… Read More
The Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at a redistricting lawsuit
By: David A. Lieb | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state’s congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday set aside a… Read More
Is drawing a voting map that helps a political party illegal? Only in some states
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — A recent unusual ruling by North Carolina’s highest court has put a spotlight on the patchwork of state laws and court decisions that determine where maps of… Read More
Ohio Republicans build on supermajority with unconstitutional state legislative district maps
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — There’s a new chapter in Ohio’s redistricting saga after Republicans picked up even more seats in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate using district… Read More
Ohio GOP legislative leaders claim state courts cannot rule on regulation of congressional elections
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican leaders in the Ohio Legislature are invoking what has been considered a fringe doctrine — known as the independent state legislature theory —… Read More
Ohio Republicans take their fight over congressional district map to the U.S. Supreme Court
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican leaders in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate have filed an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Ohio Supreme Court’s… Read More
Ohio’s chief justice says a new redistricting amendment is needed
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The retiring chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court has called for a new constitutional amendment to address political gerrymandering. Republican Maureen O’Connor is leaving the… Read More
GOP leaders dispute timeline for new congressional map as groups say lawmakers missed deadline
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Voting rights groups and community organizers are clashing with Republican legislators over the timeline issued by the Ohio Supreme Court for a new congressional… Read More
Ohio Supreme Court strikes down congressional map currently in use for 2022 election
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A split Ohio Supreme Court has struck down the 15-district congressional map that was used for the May primary and will be in place… Read More
Federal court intervenes in Ohio redistricting, orders state to implement unconstitutional district
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio has been ordered by a federal court to implement maps that were found unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court and hold a primary… Read More
A timeline of Ohio’s redistricting saga
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An Ohio redistricting process that began in August 2021 to draw new state legislative district maps has seen many twists and turns that eventually… Read More
From constitutional reform to crisis, Ohio redistricting saga nears federal intervention
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A saga that began nine months ago to implement Ohio’s new redistricting process is now heading towards a federal court decision that could dash… Read More
Ohio Supreme Court deliberating over resubmitted, rejected maps
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Supreme Court is deliberating over maps that have already been reviewed and rejected by justices two months ago. On Thursday, the Ohio… Read More
Failing to adopt new maps, Ohio Redistricting Commission resubmits unconstitutional plan
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Redistricting Commission failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to adopt new state legislative district maps Thursday evening and instead opted to resubmit… Read More
Ohio Redistricting Commission reconvenes with looming court-ordered deadline
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Republican and Democratic members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission disagreed over how to go about drawing a new set of House and Senate district… Read More
Faber joins Democrats calling for Ohio Redistricting Commission to reconvene
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Auditor Keith Faber, a Republican, is joining the Democratic members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission in calling for the commission to reconvene as soon… Read More
Democrats fail to hold Ohio redistricting meeting without Republican support
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Democratic members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission attempted to hold a meeting in the Ohio Statehouse but failed to gain the required support of… Read More