The Ohio Supreme Court gave the commission 22 days to craft new state House and Senate maps, but the group squandered nearly all of them.
approved statehouse maps on Thursday that were already struck down by the Ohio Supreme Court as they wait out the clock on a federal court decision.
The Ohio Redistricting Commission had until 9 a.m. Friday to submit a fifth round of state House and Senate maps. The Ohio Supreme Court gave the commission 22 days to craft a new solution, but the group squandered nearly all of them – not working together on new districts or rehiring mapmakers to craft maps for them.
Republicans wanted to wait until after the May 3 primary to meet. Gov. Mike DeWine contracted COVID-19. But the real reason for the delay was the federal court.on a three-judge panel forecasted that they would pick maps by May 28 and set an Aug. 2 primary if redistricting leaders didn’t act. The maps they would pick were approved by four Republicans on the commission on Feb. 24 and later found unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Those maps match Ohio’s voting preferences with Republicans winning about 54% of the vote and Democrats 46% in statewide races over the past decade. But many of the so-called Democratic districts are more like tossups and there are no similar GOP districts. That lack of partisan symmetry was a problem for the Ohio Supreme Court.
Thursday's decision came over the objections of Democrats, who urged the commission to pass a modified version of maps created by
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