Issue 1 on the November ballot seeks to reform redistricting by taking power to draw maps away from politicians giving it instead to a citizens commission, as 20 other states have done.
Issue 1 is billed as a solution for gerrymandering in Ohio . The amendment to the state constitution lays out a detailed process for how maps for legislative districts should be drawn.According to a poll by Baldwin Wallace University, nearly 70% of Ohio voters oppose gerrymandering, the practice of creating electoral boundaries in order to benefit one political party.
In Ohio, that party has been Republicans. While recent Republican statewide candidates have won about 56% of the vote, the GOP currently controls 10 of Ohio’s 15 congressional seats and more than two-thirds of seats in both the Ohio House and the Ohio Senate — the largest supermajorities either major party has held since the state legislature moved to single-member districts in the 1960s.
Because Republicans dominate statewide offices, they dominate the redistricting process after every 10-year census. Issue 1 on the November ballot would remove the responsibility of redistricting from elected officials and instead give it to an independent citizens commission made up equally of Democrats, Republicans and independents.
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