Ohio’s gerrymandered maps take voting power away from Black communities, fair map advocates said this week on a media call. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU’s law school found that about 77% of Ohio (about…
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Partisan gerrymandering and the mobilization of Ohio voters
CLEVELAND – This past year has been the most consequential in Ohio constitutional history since the iconic 1912 Constitutional Convention. In August, Ohio voters mobilized and resoundingly rejected an effort to abandon the historic simple…
First petition signatures inked on Ohio legislative redistricting proposal
Volunteers gathering signatures with the campaign Citizens Not Politicians are beginning to fan out across Ohio, after an incorrect date forced them to redo part of the initiated constitutional amendment process. Elizabeth Grieser and Amber Decker braved…
Redistricting amendment campaign begins collecting voter signatures for 2024 ballot
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The campaign to put a redistricting reform amendment up for a statewide vote next year has begun gathering the hundreds of thousands of voter signatures needed for the measure to qualify. A…