source-https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ohios-legacy-gerrymandering-could-end-november
snip-"Ohioans will vote on a constitutional amendment that would establish a citizen-led independent redistricting process to replace the politically driven map-making system.
THIS IS ISSUE 1 on the OHIO BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER
snip-"In March 2022, the Ohio Redistricting Commission was running six months behind schedule to produce state legislative maps. The Ohio Supreme Court previously ruled that three sets of maps drawn by the politician-run commission were unconstitutional. The court’s latest order required the politicians in charge of redistricting to hire independent mapmakers to achieve what they could not: draft maps that reflect Ohio voters’ preferences.
But instead of following through with the independent experts’ proposals, a few legislators on the commission had other plans. Late in the evening on the day of the court’s deadline, they introduced a separate set of legislative maps, drawn by one party’s staffers in a back room outside of public view, that looked eerily similar to previously rejected maps. The commission’s majority approved the eleventh-hour plan — abandoning the professionals, disregarding the will of the citizens, and sending the court maps that would once again be ruled unconstitutional."
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