The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected Republican-drawn district maps in the state for the third time, saying that the maps were unconstitutional and didn’t reflect the will of voters in the state.
and one Republican joining the two Democrats in the group to vote against them. Because they weren’t passed with a bipartisan majority, they would only have been in place for four years., the justices ruled that the maps gave unfair favor to Republicans, giving them 58 percent of seats when previous election data has shown that about 54 percent of Ohio voters preferred Republicans. The maps then would have created a 42 percent seat ceiling for Democrats, the justices found.
Under the newly rejected maps, Republicans would have gotten 54 percent of seats in the state, matching voter preferences on a surface level. But voting rights advocatesmaps would have put a hard cap on the number of districts that Democrats could win, regardless of voter preferences in that election.
Democrats weren’t given a chance to contribute to the map-drawing or even review the maps when they were presented in February, justices . “The evidence shows that the individuals who controlled the map-drawing process exercised that control with the overriding intent to maintain as much of an advantage as possible for members of their political party,” the justices wrote.
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