Groups that won suits over Ohio maps submit their own plan
2 years, 11 months ago

Groups that won suits over Ohio maps submit their own plan

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The winners of lawsuits challenging Ohio’s gerrymandered legislative maps submitted their own plan for new lines to the state’s redistricting panel Friday, signaling a possible path to ending legal wrangling as 2022 elections approach. “Our teams worked with redistricting experts and data analysts to create constitutional maps that are technically perfect, and that accurately reflect Ohio voter preferences and Ohio communities,” ACLU of Ohio legal director Freda Levenson said in a statement. Litigants behind the alternative plan submitted Friday include the League of Women Voters of Ohio, the legal arm of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Ohio voter Bria Bennett and others. The plan “satisfies every technical line-drawing rule set forth” in the constitution, Levenson said, “as well as the constitutional requirements that the seat share correspond closely to voters’ statewide preferences and that the plan avoid primarily favoring or disfavoring one political party.” Under the first round of maps, Republicans were favored to win 62 of 99 seats in the Ohio House and 23 of 33 seats in the Ohio Senate, a striking departure from the state’s political mix of 54% Republicans and 46% Democrats.

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Ohio’s Anti-Gerrymandering Ballot Measure Fails
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2 months ago

Ohio’s Anti-Gerrymandering Ballot Measure Fails

Huff Post  

An Ohio ballot measure to reform the state’s redistricting process with a constitutional amendment failed, meaning the power to draw congressional and state legislative districts will remain in the hands of politicians. The ballot measure, known as Issue 1, proposed a state constitutional amendment to replace Ohio’s current map-drawing body, the Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting Commission, with one to be called …

Ohio to Decide on Constitutional Amendment Establishing a Citizen-Led Redistricting Commission
2 months ago

Ohio to Decide on Constitutional Amendment Establishing a Citizen-Led Redistricting Commission

Associated Press  

Ohio voters will decide whether to establish a citizen-led redistricting commission to replace the state's troubled political mapmaking system. The proposed amendment calls for replacing the current redistricting commission with a 15-person citizen-led commission of Republicans, Democrats and independents selected by retired judges. The measure has sparked debate, with proponents arguing that it would be fairer and more representative, while …

GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine opposes fall ballot effort to replace troubled political mapmaking system
5 months, 1 week ago

GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine opposes fall ballot effort to replace troubled political mapmaking system

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday that he will work to defeat a fall ballot issue aimed at remaking the state’s troubled political mapmaking system, and, if it passes, work with state lawmakers next year to advance a competing amendment based on the Iowa model. They all go away.” DeWine said Iowa’s system — in which …

Proposal to create a new political mapmaking system in Ohio qualifies for November ballot
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Proposal to create a new political mapmaking system in Ohio qualifies for November ballot

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. COLUMBUS, Ohio — A proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system has qualified for November’s statewide ballot, the state’s elections chief announced Tuesday. Retired Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, who presided over the high court during the legal battle, called the certification “a historic step towards restoring …

Campaign to get new political mapmaking system on Ohio’s ballot submits more than 700,000 signatures
6 months, 1 week ago

Campaign to get new political mapmaking system on Ohio’s ballot submits more than 700,000 signatures

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system delivered hundreds of thousands of signatures on Monday as they work to qualify for the statewide ballot this fall. Citizens Not Politicians dropped off more than 700,000 petition signatures to Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office in downtown Columbus, according to Jen Miller, director …

Voting rights advocates ask federal judge to toss Ohio voting restrictions they say violate ADA
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Voting rights advocates ask federal judge to toss Ohio voting restrictions they say violate ADA

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Voting rights advocates asked a federal judge on Friday to strike down restrictions contained in Ohio’s sweeping 2023 election law that they say restrict a host of trusted individuals from helping voters with disabilities cast absentee ballots. “These arbitrary restrictions that burden the right to vote of Ohioans with disabilities are undemocratic, cruel, and in violation of …

THINGS TO KNOW: Deadline looms for new map in embattled North Dakota redistricting lawsuit
1 year ago

THINGS TO KNOW: Deadline looms for new map in embattled North Dakota redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — The clock is running out on a Friday deadline for North Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature to draw new legislative boundaries compliant with the Voting Rights Act for two Native American tribes who successfully sued for new lines. A federal judge last month ruled that the state’s 2021 redistricting map violates the landmark 1965 civil rights law in diluting …

Judge weighing Ohio abortion rights amendment’s legal impact keeps anti-abortion groups clear
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge weighing Ohio abortion rights amendment’s legal impact keeps anti-abortion groups clear

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge in Ohio has denied a group of anti-abortion advocates the ability to weigh in on long-running litigation over abortion clinic transfer agreements, as he assesses the impacts on the case of an abortion-rights amendment approved by voters this fall. In a brief order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Michael R. Barrett said he rejected …

Ohio Supreme Court dismisses 3 long-running redistricting lawsuits against state legislative maps
1 year, 1 month ago

Ohio Supreme Court dismisses 3 long-running redistricting lawsuits against state legislative maps

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The more than two-year legal battle over the maps of Ohio Statehouse districts that were crafted in response to the 2020 Census may be over. In a 4-3 ruling late Monday, the Ohio Supreme Court cited unanimous, bipartisan passage in September of a new round of legislative maps in dismissing three long-running lawsuits brought by Democratic and …

Signature-gathering starts anew for mapmaking proposal in Ohio that was stalled by a typo
1 year, 1 month ago

Signature-gathering starts anew for mapmaking proposal in Ohio that was stalled by a typo

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system will finally be able to start gathering signatures, after clearing a second round of state approvals Monday. Their proposal would replace the current Ohio Redistricting Commission, made up of three statewide officeholders and four state lawmakers, with an independent body selected directly by citizens. Among them …

Supreme Court justice sues over Ohio law requiring certain judicial candidates to use party labels
1 year, 2 months ago

Supreme Court justice sues over Ohio law requiring certain judicial candidates to use party labels

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A top jurist and former elections chief in Ohio has sued two state officials over a recently passed law that requires certain judicial candidates to declare their party affiliation on ballots. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner argues in the lawsuit filed Tuesday that the 2021 law violates the free speech, due process and equal protection clauses …

Another round of Ohio Statehouse maps has been challenged in court, despite bipartisan support
1 year, 3 months ago

Another round of Ohio Statehouse maps has been challenged in court, despite bipartisan support

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Advocacy groups fighting Ohio’s political maps in court formally objected Thursday to the latest round of Statehouse districts, which they see as once again unfairly drawn to favor Republicans. The parties have “no choice” but to continue their challenge against the new maps, said Yurij Rudensky, senior counsel in the Democracy Program operation by New York University …

Amendment aimed at reforming Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system edges toward 2024 ballot
1 year, 3 months ago

Amendment aimed at reforming Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system edges toward 2024 ballot

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A proposed amendment that would remake Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system, which repeatedly failed last year to produce maps that could pass constitutional muster, edged closer to the 2024 ballot on Monday. Republican state Attorney General Dave Yost’s certification of summary petition language for the constitutional amendment submitted by the group Citizens Not Politicians sends the issue …

Bipartisan Ohio commission unanimously approves new maps that favor Republican state legislators
1 year, 3 months ago

Bipartisan Ohio commission unanimously approves new maps that favor Republican state legislators

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s political map-making commission unanimously approved new Statehouse maps Tuesday night, moving a step closer to resolving a long-running redistricting battle. Rob McColley, a Henry County Republican who served on the Ohio Redistricting Commission, said in a statement that the vote proved that bipartisan “good faith negotiations” in the redistricting process produce results, and that he’s “very …

Ohio redistricting panel adopts GOP-drawn Statehouse maps for public discussion, as Democrats object
1 year, 3 months ago

Ohio redistricting panel adopts GOP-drawn Statehouse maps for public discussion, as Democrats object

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Redistricting Commission tentatively adopted a new set of Republican-drawn Statehouse maps over Democrats’ objections Wednesday, a plan that again would deliver large legislative majorities to the GOP. The commission got back to business after two Republican legislative leaders who may be rivals for the House speakership next year settled a political dispute. They designated a …

Ohio attorney general rejects language for political mapmaking reform amendment for a second time
1 year, 3 months ago

Ohio attorney general rejects language for political mapmaking reform amendment for a second time

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office again rejected petition language Thursday for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state’s troubled system for drawing political maps, frustrating the effort’s backers. In his rejection letter, Republican Dave Yost said Citizens Not Politicians’ second submission had one “critical omission”: How party affiliation would be determined under the new system. He …

GOP legislative leaders’ co-chair flap has brought the Ohio Redistricting Commission to a standstill
1 year, 3 months ago

GOP legislative leaders’ co-chair flap has brought the Ohio Redistricting Commission to a standstill

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s latest attempt to draw fair political maps crumbled amid Republican infighting Wednesday, begging the question of whether a commission unable even to appoint its co-chairs will be able to negotiate a bipartisan redistricting solution within the few short weeks it’s been allotted. That was despite fellow Republicans Senate President Matt Huffman and House Speaker Jason Stephens …

Ohio will keep GOP-drawn congressional maps in 2024 elections, ending court challenge
1 year, 4 months ago

Ohio will keep GOP-drawn congressional maps in 2024 elections, ending court challenge

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Congressional district maps previously deemed unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court will be used in 2024 after the high court dismissed legal challenges against the Republican-drawn districts on Thursday. The Ohio voting-rights groups that brought forward the challenges moved to dismiss their own lawsuits against the Republican-drawn maps earlier this week, saying the turmoil isn’t in the …

Voting rights groups ask to dismiss lawsuit challenging gerrymandered Ohio congressional map
1 year, 4 months ago

Voting rights groups ask to dismiss lawsuit challenging gerrymandered Ohio congressional map

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voting-rights groups moved to dismiss their lawsuit against Ohio’s unconstitutional congressional map on Tuesday, arguing that prolonging the legal wrangling over where to draw district boundaries isn’t in the best interests of Ohio voters. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio and others, told the Ohio …

Voting rights groups ask to dismiss lawsuit challenging gerrymandered Ohio congressional map
1 year, 4 months ago

Voting rights groups ask to dismiss lawsuit challenging gerrymandered Ohio congressional map

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ohio voting-rights groups moved to dismiss their lawsuit against Ohio's …

Ohio attorney general rejects language for amendment aimed at reforming troubled political mapmaking
1 year, 4 months ago

Ohio attorney general rejects language for amendment aimed at reforming troubled political mapmaking

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office rejected petition language Wednesday for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state’s troubled system for drawing political maps, determining that it failed to present a fair and truthful summary of what is proposed. In announcing the determination, Republican Dave Yost’s office said, “The decision underscores the importance of precise, comprehensive and …

Ohio abortion rights backers submit nearly double needed signatures for fall ballot measure
1 year, 6 months ago

Ohio abortion rights backers submit nearly double needed signatures for fall ballot measure

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the statewide ballot this fall, aiming to signal sweeping widespread support for an issue that still faces the threat of needing a significantly increased victory margin. At a news conference, Copeland said the 422 boxes …

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit
1 year, 6 months ago

Supreme Court directs Ohio’s top court to take another look at redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state’s congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday set aside a ruling striking down the districts and ordered further consideration of the case. In both Ohio and North Carolina, Republican state lawmakers contended in appeals that their state’s highest court had gone too far …

With abortion rights on the line, an August special election has Ohio election offices scrambling
1 year, 6 months ago

With abortion rights on the line, an August special election has Ohio election offices scrambling

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A high-stakes August special election with national political implications is upending local election offices across Ohio, as already stressed election workers are suddenly faced with a mountain of logistical challenges after Republican lawmakers backtracked on their own law. “Whatever happens, it will set the tone for how we go into 2024 legislative sessions, what tactics, what nuances …

Supreme Court: Ohio ballot board must fix language describing August supermajority question
1 year, 6 months ago

Supreme Court: Ohio ballot board must fix language describing August supermajority question

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday ordered a state panel back to work to fix language describing an August ballot proposal aimed at making it harder to amend the state’s constitution, after justices determined elements of the wording would mislead voters. Monday’s ruling was a partial victory for One Person One Vote, the campaign opposing Issue 1, …

New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections
1 year, 7 months ago

New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections

Associated Press  

The 2022 elections marked the first using new voting districts drawn from updated census data. RACE IN REDISTRICTING The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that Alabama’s congressional districts likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of Black voters. It ordered a lower court to impose new U.S. House and state …

Ohio Constitution question aimed at thwarting abortion rights push heads to August ballot
1 year, 7 months ago

Ohio Constitution question aimed at thwarting abortion rights push heads to August ballot

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters will get the chance to decide whether to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments just ahead of possible November vote on an amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the state. A resolution asking voters in an August election to raise the threshold for future amendments from a simple majority to 60% cleared the …

Ohio constitution overhaul faces deadline, backlash
1 year, 8 months ago

Ohio constitution overhaul faces deadline, backlash

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An effort by a Republican faction in Ohio to make it harder to change the state constitution faces a critical juncture Wednesday, with action needed in the politically fractured Ohio House where the undertaking has so far stalled. However, a bill creating that election fizzled last week in a House committee and another panel agreed Tuesday to …

The shame of Ohio: Corrupt, gerrymandered Statehouse Republicans assault voters, again
1 year, 8 months ago

The shame of Ohio: Corrupt, gerrymandered Statehouse Republicans assault voters, again

Raw Story  

Just moments after I watched Ohio Senate Republicans pass a resolution for 41% minority rule over the Ohio Constitution on Wednesday, I walked past a field trip of Ohio children touring the Statehouse. But in a letter to Ohio House colleagues in December, Stewart listed only two reasons for Republican lawmakers to support attacking voters’ ability to amend our constitution: …

Abortion rights groups submit 2023 ballot measure in Ohio
1 year, 10 months ago

Abortion rights groups submit 2023 ballot measure in Ohio

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two groups advocating for abortion rights submitted fall ballot language Tuesday for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Ohioans’ access to abortion, an effort that opponents have vowed to fight. The measure delivered to Republican Attorney General Dave Yost’s office calls for establishing “a fundamental right to reproductive freedom” with “reasonable limits.” In language similar to a constitutional amendment …

Law firm for Democrats files suit against Ohio election law
2 years ago

Law firm for Democrats files suit against Ohio election law

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Democratic law firm has filed suit against Ohio’s new election law, claiming on behalf of groups representing military veterans, teachers, retirees and the homeless that it “imposes needless and discriminatory burdens” on the right to vote. The litigation notes that Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the defendant, and state Sen. Theresa Gavarone, who oversaw insertion …

EXPLAINER: What’s ahead for Ohio’s unsettled political maps?
2 years ago

EXPLAINER: What’s ahead for Ohio’s unsettled political maps?

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The election contests of 2022 may have been held and decided, but Ohio’s political maps remain far from settled. Voters gave the Ohio Supreme Court “exclusive, original jurisdiction” to decide legal challenges, which included three lawsuits against the legislative maps and two lawsuits against the congressional map. Ohio’s congressional map dispute is now awaiting action in the …

Chief justice in Ohio map flap: Court attacks harm democracy
2 years ago

Chief justice in Ohio map flap: Court attacks harm democracy

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor isn’t rattled on a personal level by the political attacks she endured from fellow Republicans during Ohio’s protracted redistricting fight. “And, unfortunately, they are in the Legislature.” O’Connor — a former common pleas judge, county prosecutor, lieutenant governor and public safety director — said that she received overwhelming support from the public …

House panel OKs voting law rewrite, 60% ballot question
2 years ago

House panel OKs voting law rewrite, 60% ballot question

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Over the strenuous objections of voting rights groups, Ohio House Republicans advanced two proposals Monday that would add a host of new restrictions to voting and place an issue on next year’s ballot that calls for requiring a 60% supermajority to pass future constitutional amendments. The latest version shortens from 10 days to seven the time that …

Groups to defend citizens’ power to amend Ohio constitution
2 years, 1 month ago

Groups to defend citizens’ power to amend Ohio constitution

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Foes of a proposal that would make it harder for citizens to amend Ohio’s constitution vowed Tuesday to unleash the same broad activist coalition against it that delivered a scorching rebuke to a Republican-backed anti-union law last decade. Jen Miller, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, said, ”“We’re trying to communicate to supporters …

GOP lawmakers appeal Ohio map flap to US Supreme Court
2 years, 2 months ago

GOP lawmakers appeal Ohio map flap to US Supreme Court

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican state lawmakers involved in Ohio’s political map-making process appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, seeking a review of an Ohio Supreme Court decision finding the state’s latest round of congressional maps unconstitutional. The move by Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp and a state senator and representative who also sit …

3 Racially Discriminatory Maps And One Illegal Partisan Gerrymander Could Help GOP Win The House
2 years, 4 months ago

3 Racially Discriminatory Maps And One Illegal Partisan Gerrymander Could Help GOP Win The House

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Earlier this year, federal judges found that the congressional district maps adopted in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana failed to provide enough representation for their respective state’s Black populations. Voting Rights Violations In The South In Alabama, Republicans drew a new seven-district map that packed a large portion of the state’s Black population into one district favoring Democrats …

Ohio GOP misses disputed deadline for new US House map
2 years, 4 months ago

Ohio GOP misses disputed deadline for new US House map

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s latest court-imposed deadline for redrawing U.S. House district boundaries came and went Thursday without a new congressional map. Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp, an influential Republican and former justice, rejected any need for lawmakers to meet a timeline set by the state’s Supreme Court as based on a “myth.” Cupp said people are overlooking alternative legal …

Ohio Supreme Court scraps 2nd GOP-drawn congressional map
2 years, 5 months ago

Ohio Supreme Court scraps 2nd GOP-drawn congressional map

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court rejected a second Republican-drawn map of U.S. House districts as gerrymandered on Tuesday, sending it back for a third attempt to meet constitutional parameters approved by Ohio voters. Despite those failures in court, however, Ohio’s 2022 congressional primaries went forward on May 3 under an earlier invalidated U.S. House map, and its legislative …

GOP mapmakers’ defiance of Ohio high court divides parties
2 years, 6 months ago

GOP mapmakers’ defiance of Ohio high court divides parties

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — State leaders continued to spar on Friday over whether the Ohio Supreme Court should force the state’s Republican-dominated political mapmaking panel to answer for defying a court order to redraw unconstitutional Statehouse maps. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the state’s elections chief, told justices it’s wrong to ask him or any other member of the Ohio …

GOP redistricting commissioners have broken the Ohio Constitution and rule of law
2 years, 7 months ago

GOP redistricting commissioners have broken the Ohio Constitution and rule of law

Raw Story  

“If courts don’t uphold the rule of law,” tweeted former Ohio Democratic Party chairman David Pepper, “there is no rule of law.” Last week the Ohio Supreme Court proved him right. The Republican members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission — tasked with drawing fair legislative districts maps — openly defied the court and violated the Ohio Constitution. It recognized that …

Judges impose voided Statehouse map, set Aug. 2 primary
2 years, 7 months ago

Judges impose voided Statehouse map, set Aug. 2 primary

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal court panel on Friday ordered Ohio to hold an Aug. 2 primary using the third set of Statehouse maps approved by the Ohio Redistricting Commission, despite a rebuke of the plan by the state’s high court. “So we chose the best of our bad options.” The federal court’s decision came in a lawsuit brought by …

Ohio’s high court rejects latest GOP-drawn Statehouse maps
2 years, 7 months ago

Ohio’s high court rejects latest GOP-drawn Statehouse maps

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A frustrated Ohio Supreme Court rejected Republican-drawn Statehouse maps for a fifth time Wednesday, extending the string of GOP defeats in a redistricting process that has ground the state’s legislative primaries to a halt. Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor was clearly angered by the Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting Commission’s decision to resubmit maps that the high court found unconstitutional …

Ohioans got short shrift as political map fight dragged on
2 years, 7 months ago

Ohioans got short shrift as political map fight dragged on

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Accusations have flown for months over who’s to blame for Ohio’s protracted redistricting predicament — a mess of a political mapmaking fight that’s left the state without settled political maps and voters without a day for electing party nominees to Statehouse seats. With Republican legislative leaders often holding sway, commission’s lags included 10 days between the census …

‘Just too far': Ohio mapmakers spar over contempt threat
2 years, 7 months ago

‘Just too far': Ohio mapmakers spar over contempt threat

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Partisan mapmakers in Ohio made distinctly emotional pleas to the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday, as justices once again weigh whether to hold the state’s redistricting commission in contempt. “These show-cause motions unnecessarily pull the Court away from what the Constitution actually requires it to do: review the merits of a Commission-passed General Assembly-district plan.” Attorneys for …

Ohio Primary Election Results 2022
2 years, 8 months ago

Ohio Primary Election Results 2022

New York Times  

Are there any new voting rules or ballot access changes in Ohio? Ohio did not pass any voting laws after the 2020 election, though a new provision tucked into a funding bill prohibits local officials from accepting money for election administration from nongovernmental organizations. Ohio’s congressional primary elections are taking place as scheduled only because of a technicality in a …

Justices send Ohio Statehouse maps back to drawing board
2 years, 8 months ago

Justices send Ohio Statehouse maps back to drawing board

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A divided Ohio Supreme Court issued an extraordinary fourth rebuke of the state’s Republican-controlled redistricting panel on Thursday, declaring mapmakers’ latest maps for Statehouse districts were yet another partisan gerrymander. In a vote by the same bipartisan 4-3 majority that ruled against the previous three maps, the court ordered the embattled and defiant Ohio Redistricting Commission back …

EXPLAINER: Why disputed maps won’t stop Ohio’s May 3 primary
2 years, 9 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why disputed maps won’t stop Ohio’s May 3 primary

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Despite the uncertainty raised over the date of Ohio’s primary election, the state is ready to move forward with early voting Tuesday for a likely May 3 contest with statewide and congressional races, but not legislative ones. The partial primary is scheduled to go ahead despite months of unresolved legal wrangling that has seen proposed redistricting maps …

Federal judges in Ohio won’t delay May 3 primary — for now
2 years, 9 months ago

Federal judges in Ohio won’t delay May 3 primary — for now

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal court panel on Wednesday decided not to delay Ohio’s May 3 primary — for now. During an hourslong hearing Wednesday, judges asked top Ohio elections officials for help determining whether to delay the primary and floated numerous alternatives to a May 3 primary — from using the state’s 2010 map to imposing a third map …

Political mapmaking body approves previously rejected plan
2 years, 9 months ago

Political mapmaking body approves previously rejected plan

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The next set of proposed boundaries for new state legislative districts has arrived at the Ohio Supreme Court, which must decide for the fourth time whether the maps are constitutionally sound. The likelihood of the court approving those maps already appeared uncertain, after the state’s political mapmaking body created them late Monday from a previously rejected set …

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