While there are certain neutral words to describe political mapmaking —“redistricting” or “reapportionment,” for example — the word “gerrymander” is the one typically employed to suggest that string-pulling aimed at securing an unfair political advantage...
Ohio Redistricting Sets Up Battles of Incumbents
Democrats’ Dreams Turn to Dust as Adjudicated Redistricting Maps Set the Stage for Large Republican Gains in 2022 May 10, 2022Ohio Star Staff The Democratic Party’s hopes of gaining seats from redistricting have been crushed as court decisions and an increasingly aggressive GOP produced more ...
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, foreground, speaks to state Sen. Vernon Sykes, seated, the co-chair of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, as other members of the panel prepared for a meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (AP ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH)– The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says they are suing the Ohio Redistricting Commission over the newly drawn legislative maps of Ohio. The ACLU says the maps are “an extreme partisan gerrymander.” The Ohio Redistricting
Commission last week, demanding to know why they should not be held in contempt of court for defying an order to produce state legislative maps on deadline. We’re talking about this jaw-dropping development in the redistricting saga onToday in Ohio,clev...
Ohioans on Tuesday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have replaced the current seven-member redistricting commission with a 15-member, nonpolitical commission to draw the state’s legislative districts. Multiple news organizations reported that voters rejected Issue 1 54.5%-45.5%,...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio election officials have approved ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1, a redistricting measure, as requiring gerrymandering when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. The Republican-controlled Ohio Ballot Boa...
Illinois’ 6th District: Rep. Sean Casten will win the Democratic nomination for a fourth term, CNN projects. Two years ago, Casten defeated progressive Rep. Marie Newman in the primary after the two were drawn into the same suburban seat following redistricting. Newman backed progressive candi...