Ohio’s Politician-Led Redistricting Commission Failed. Citizens Are Proposing a Citizen-Led Commission Instead.

Brian is out today, and while this is a repeat of Aug. 15, 2023, earlier this month, the language for Independent Redistricting Commission ballot initiative was greenlighted by the Ohio Ballot Board: With 70% of the vote in 2018, Ohio voters passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting partisan gerrymandering.  The state’s redistricting commission and legislature ignored it, and gerrymandered the voting district maps anyway.  Citizens are now trying to fix what the politicians won’t.