Congressional Redistricting

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Ohio Supreme Court invalidated the maps last week and ordered new maps by Monday, January 24.

The Ohio Redistricting Commission has until October 31 to approve a new Congressional district map.

A federal appeals court has sided with Ohio’s attorney general in his lawsuit to get U.S. Census data earlier to draw new legislative maps, but the leader of the Ohio Senate says at this point, he’s not sure it will make a difference.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, host Steve Brown discusses the effort to end qualified immunity for government employees in Ohio. An initiative called Accountability Ohio Now filed paperwork this week to get the issue on the ballot next year.

A plan to put a constitutional amendment up for a Ohio-wide vote in August has been scrapped. That amendment would have extended the deadline to draw...

The early data from the census is in and as expected, Ohio lost one of its 16 seats in the U.S. House. We consider the census problem and how the redistricting process works this time around.