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The campaign committee now has until July 3 of next year to collect the 413,487 valid signatures required to make the November 2024 ballot.
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The two Democrats on the seven member Ohio Redistricting Commission voted for maps they said were unfair because they were a little better than previous proposals. But the Democrats say the only way to get truly fair maps is to make a change in the redistricting process.
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Gov. Mike DeWine grudgingly gaveled the reconstituted Ohio Redistricting Commission to order. That was despite fellow Republicans Senate President Matt Huffman and House Speaker Jason Stephens — presumably from separate locations somewhere off-site — failing to come to any agreement on who the GOP's co-chair should be.
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The proposal, championed by two former Ohio Supreme Court justices, would create a 15-member commission that could not include politicians, lobbyists or other partisans to draw district maps for Ohio's Congressional districts and the state's House and Senate.
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The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled the second congressional map adopted by Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission and currently in use for the 2022 election violates partisan gerrymandering prohibitions and is therefore unconstitutional.
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Democratic lawmakers, voting rights groups and community organizations are looking at what options are available as the redistricting process enters a new phase.
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A vast majority of Americans support new laws to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, but Republican lawmakers seem set on eliminating regulations. In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss Ohio's track record on gun legislation.
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House Speaker Bob Cupp, a Republican, has announced the next Ohio Redistricting Commission will take place just two days before a court-ordered deadline for new state legislative district maps.
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The Ohio Redistricting Commission has until May 6 to adopt a new set of state legislative district maps but, despite Democratic members urging them to meet, the rest of the commissioners show no signs of reconvening soon.
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The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the Ohio Redistricting Commission to adopt a new set of state legislative district maps by May 6, but so far there has been no movement from Republican leadership to reconvene.