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.
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The group that created the proposal, Citizens Not Politicians, seeks to keep the commission in an “open and independent process” while creating “fair and impartial districts by making it unconstitutional to draw voting districts that discriminate against or favor any political party or individual politician.”
O’Connor, for her part, released a statement as part of the redistricting reform coalition discrediting the new Statehouse maps as a “bipartisan gerrymander” that only proved the need for reform of the process, reformed already by voters in 2015 and 2018 in hopes of avoiding extreme gerrymandering and laying enforcement of constitutionality at the feet of the state’s highest court.
The proposed anti-gerrymandering amendment was submitted twice before, on Aug. 14 and Sept. 5. In his second, mid-September rejection of the language, Yost said a review of the proposal “identified a critical omission that would mislead a potential signer as to the actual scope and effect of the proposed amendment.”
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