Ohio's redistricting and gerrymandering drama could come to an end under a newly-proposed constitutional amendment.
The nonpartisan coalition Citizens Not Politicians has collected more than the 1,000 signatures they need to start the process of putting a constitutional amendment on the November 2024 ballot. In fact, just in a weekend, the group collected 7,300 from 31 different counties, according to spokesperson Chris Davey.
The proposal creates the 15-member Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission made up of Republican, Democratic and independent citizens who broadly represent the different geographic areas and demographics of the state. The Ohio Redistricting Commission is made up of seven spots. Two will always go to Republicans and two to Democrats in the Statehouse. The three remaining seats include the governor, secretary of state and auditor."We would start in earnest after June 30, have hearings and all of the other negotiations and things that are to be done and to try to have a map by mid-September," Huffman said.
In a one-on-one interview with former Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor in December, she discussed how ruling seven separate times that GOP-backed redistricting maps were unconstitutional and gerrymandered earned scorn and resistance from the party that once championed her. “When politicians draw biased, often ridiculously-shaped districts to favor their own political interests, that’s gerrymandering,” she said in the OCRC press release. “Ohio is one of the country’s most gerrymandered states, and even today, is operating under maps deemed unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court. This proposal would end gerrymandering by empowering citizens, not politicians, to draw fair districts using an open and independent process.
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