“What began as a ‘historic’ process devolved into the same one-sided partisan map-drawing process that led us to invalidate the previous three plans,” the judges wrote in an unsigned majority opinion.
Ohio will still hold a May 3 primary for congressional and statewide races, which aren't affected by the redistricting debate over seats in the Legislature.
After the court rejected the third set of maps and threatened to hold the redistricting commission in contempt, the commission appeared to take a different tack in drawing up the legislative boundaries. It hired independent mapmakers — paying them nearly $100,000 — and brought in a mediator. The process was livestreamed, allowing the public to watch the maps being drawn in real time, and voting rights advocates were optimistic that the resulting maps would be fair and lawful.
“What began as a 'historic' process devolved into the same one-sided partisan map-drawing process that led us to invalidate the previous three plans,” the justices wrote in an unsigned majority opinion Thursday."Just when the independent map drawers were perilously close to showing that the difficult was achievable," he wrote,"the commission’s majority-party members summarily pulled the plug on that process.
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