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2025 Year in Review: Ohio gets another new congressional map
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Once again, Ohio starts the upcoming election year with a new congressional map. While it’s projected to tip more toward the GOP than the… Read More
Why did Democrats strike a deal with Republicans on an Ohio congressional map?
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Last week’s deal on a new 15-district congressional map was something of a surprise, as Democrats on the Ohio Redistricting Commission voted for a… Read More
The Ohio Redistricting Commission cuts a deal on a congressional voting map and averts a repeal effort
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Redistricting Commission, by a 7-0 vote Friday morning, took a deal on a congressional map that legislative leaders brokered behind closed doors. The… Read More
The Ohio Redistricting Commission, tasked with approving a bipartisan voting map, can’t agree on rules
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Critics have been saying the state’s redistricting process is broken. An effort to overhaul it last year failed, but there are new calls for… Read More
Gov. Mike DeWine says a bipartisan Congressional map would give Ohio voters ‘more confidence’
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio elected officials are now less than 10 days away from blowing a second deadline to pass a bipartisan Congressional map. Gov. Mike DeWine… Read More
The Ohio Redistricting Commission ends its first meeting with no congressional map
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Redistricting Commission met for the first time Tuesday morning to consider how to draw congressional maps. But the meeting ended with no introduction… Read More
The Ohio Redistricting Commission will meet Tuesday, but may not be looking at Republican map yet
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The first meeting for the Ohio Redistricting Commission for this congressional map redraw will happen on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the order of Gov. Mike… Read More
The reality, regrets and reorganization involved in Ohio’s redistricting process
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s redistricting saga continues as lawmakers draw a new 15-district congressional map. The job is now with Ohio Redistricting Commission, a bipartisan panel of… Read More
What happened to DeWine’s plan to seek changes to Ohio’s redistricting process?
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — As yet another round of drawing new districts for lawmakers from Ohio starts, there’s renewed frustration and concern about the redistricting process. And there… Read More
Ohio Dems unveil their redrawn map ahead of the redistricting deadline
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Legislature is inching closer to its first deadline for Congressional redistricting, at the end of the month, and the majority caucus has… Read More
Once again, Ohio lawmakers invite citizens to submit maps before redistricting begins
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio lawmakers will be drawing a new congressional maps this fall, not because they’re choosing to but because they have to. State law requires… Read More
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