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Ohio’s Republican-dominated Ballot Board will decide on this fall’s redistricting proposal wording
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A panel of lawmakers meets Friday to determine the summary language voters will see in November when deciding on a new redistricting proposal. The group… Read More
Ohio’s Secretary of State says circulators may have broken law with voter registrations, petitions
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said he suspects circulators for a company that has worked for groups on voter petitions and registrations for… Read More
Ohio redistricting proposal vs. Iowa plan – some common elements, but also big differences
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine has come out against the proposal on the fall ballot to change the way lawmakers’ district lines are drawn. He also… Read More
Ohio redistricting amendment backers raise $23 million, and have intentionally spent even more
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The group behind the November ballot issue that would change the process for drawing lawmakers’ district lines has raised more than $23 million this… Read More
Redistricting proposal on Ohio’s fall ballot includes elements from Iowa plan DeWine likes
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine wants Ohio voters to reject the redistricting amendment on the November ballot in favor of a future plan he hopes to… Read More
Ohio governor blasts redistricting on fall ballot, urges lawmakers to make changes next year
By: Jo Ingles | Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine is blasting a redistricting proposal that will be on the November ballot. The Citizens Not Politicians plan before voters this fall… Read More
Will Ohio lawmakers propose their own redistricting amendment for November ballot?
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Many state Republican leaders have spoken out against the proposed redistricting amendment appearing on the ballot this November, but not Gov. Mike DeWine. DeWine’s… Read More
How a redistricting amendment might affect candidates on Ohio’s fall ballot
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Redistricting reform supporters are waiting to see if they make the Nov. 5 ballot – though it seems likely, since they submitted 300,000 more… Read More
2023 Year in Review: Ohio lawmakers get new district maps again, and more change could be coming
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gerrymandering was once again a watch word in Ohio politics this year, as lawmakers had to draw new maps to replace the ones used because… Read More
Signature-gathering starts anew for the mapmaking proposal in Ohio that was stalled by a typo
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system will finally be able to start gathering signatures, after clearing a second round of state… Read More
Redistricting proposal backers say Ohio lawmakers’ reaction to Issue 1 shows need for change
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Supporters of a proposal to change the way the state does redistricting point out that since Ohio voters approved an amendment to enshrine abortion… Read More
How states are using legislative privilege to drag out redistricting lawsuits
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (PBS NewsHour) — In 2021, each state redrew its congressional district lines to reflect the 2020 census results. Two years later, the maps in many states are the… Read More
A typo has delayed signature gathering for the group backing Ohio’s citizens redistricting panel
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — It’s back to the drawing board again for the group trying to change the redistricting process of drawing congressional and state legislative district maps through… Read More
Third time is the charm for backers of a proposed Ohio amendment to change legislative redistricting
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to remove politicians from Ohio‘s legislative redistricting process are one step closer to putting the issue on the… Read More
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
Supreme Court rejects Alabama’s defiance in voting case
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to block enforcement of an Alabama voting rights decision that the high court issued just months ago. In June, the… 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
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
Ohio’s former chief justice says redistricting was ‘doomed to fail’ and Ohio needs a new way to draw maps
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Republican former chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court has done as she said she would earlier this year: She’s working with a… 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
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