Yost certified the ballot language this week that would create a “Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission”
An Ohio anti-gerrymandering ballot amendment proposal for 2024 that has been in limbo after two different rejections from the Attorney General’s Office has now been certified to go forward after its third attempt.
Five of the six versions of Statehouse district maps that were adopted by the current Ohio Redistricting Commission, which is made up of five GOP elected officials and two Democratic legislative leaders, have been ruled unconstitutionally partisan gerrymanders by the Ohio Supreme Court.
“From waiting more than a year to get to work, to holding hearings in remote locations at times when working people are earning their living and can’t participate, to voting for their own political interests,” O’Connor said in a Sept. 27 statement. “We have seen once again, that politicians — Democrats and Republicans both — can’t be trusted to draw fair maps in an open and transparent process.”
In that rejection, the state attorney general said political affiliation within the redistricting commission and a panel who choses the commission members wasn’t clearly stated, which would be important as bipartisanship would be a “key element” of the new redistricting process, according to Yost’s
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