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2024 Year in Review: Ohioans decided on its sixth redistricting ballot issue in 50 years
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Activists frustrated at the multi-year saga of the maps created by the Ohio Redistricting Commission took their plan for an independent map-drawing panel to voters… Read More

With Issue 1 dead, will Ohio lawmakers pursue redistricting reform?
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio voters on Tuesday night handily rejected Issue 1—which would have thrown out the current redistricting system, in which elected officials draw the lines, by… Read More

Low information voters in a high turnout election could sink or swim Ohio’s Issue 1 redistricting amendment
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — This November’s election marks the fifth time in 20 years Ohioans will vote on how the state draws its congressional maps with Issue 1 on the… Read More

The first major ad dropped in the campaign for Issue 1 redistricting amendment in Ohio
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In the hours leading up to Wednesday’s Ohio Ballot Board meeting where contentious summary language for a redistricting amendment on the November ballot will… Read More

Ballot language for Issue 1 is set, but backers of the redistricting plan say the wording is unfair
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Republican-dominated Ohio Ballot Board has made some minor tweaks to the language voters will see for Issue 1 when they go to the… Read More

Final language for Issue 1 must be approved, as Ohio elections officials prep for a key deadline
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Monday’s Ohio Supreme Court decision on ballot summary language for Issue 1 came as a relief to elections officials, who are facing a key… Read More

Ohio Supreme Court lets stand most of the Ballot Board’s language on Issue 1
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Most of the three-page summary that backers of this fall’s Issue 1 say is biased and unfair will be what voters see when they cast… Read More

Backers of the redistricting amendment sue Republican-run panel over ballot language
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Supporters of the redistricting amendment that will be on the ballot this November have filed suit against the Ohio Ballot Board over summary language… Read More

A lawsuit is coming over controversial ballot language adopted by Ohio Ballot Board
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Backers of the constitutional amendment that seeks to take politicians out of the congressional and legislative map-drawing process are upset with the summary language… 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

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

The Ohio Redistricting Commission will meet Sept. 13, but its deadline for legislative maps already looms
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission that will draw maps for Ohio’s state lawmakers hasn’t met this year, but is set to get together for… 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

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

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