Posted on Jul 23, 2022
Analysis: How the GOP turned Ohio's redistricting process upside down
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Does this seemingly never-ending, insanely convoluted and unnecessarily partisan process of drawing Ohio's new congressional and state legislative districts give you a headache?
It should, if you have been paying any attention whatsoever.
Twice, in 2015 and 2018, Ohio voters went to the polls and overwhelmingly supported constitutional amendments dealing with the process for drawing state legislative and congressional district lines — amendments that were aimed at taking at least some of the partisan politics out of the process.
So far, it's been a massive failure.
Republicans — who have a vise-like grip on the reins of both the Ohio General Assembly and the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission — have made sure of that.
It should, if you have been paying any attention whatsoever.
Twice, in 2015 and 2018, Ohio voters went to the polls and overwhelmingly supported constitutional amendments dealing with the process for drawing state legislative and congressional district lines — amendments that were aimed at taking at least some of the partisan politics out of the process.
So far, it's been a massive failure.
Republicans — who have a vise-like grip on the reins of both the Ohio General Assembly and the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission — have made sure of that.
Analysis: How the GOP turned Ohio's redistricting process upside down
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