The arguments were put together by the official campaign groups backing and opposing the measure.
Volunteers with Citizens Not Politicians deliver petitions from citizens around the state of Ohio at Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office on Monday, July 1, 2024, in Columbus. COLUMBUS, Ohio — State officials have released the official arguments for and against Issue 1, the redistricting reform amendment that will appear on the statewide ballot in November.
Issue 1 would create a citizen’s commission that would oversee redistricting, the process of drawing state legislative and congressional district maps. It would take that authority away from the Ohio Redistricting Commission, a panel of elected officials that’s currently controlled by Republicans. The “no” argument, meanwhile, says the amendment would “force gerrymandering” by requiring districts to closely correspond with the state’s political leanings and frames the new citizen’s commission as unaccountable to voters. This description resembles the ballot language LaRose and other Republicans who oppose the amendment approved last week,
The commission would have to conduct its map drawing in public, and would draw its first congressional and state legislative district maps for use in the 2026 elections. The amendment lays out a bipartisan process to screen and select redistricting commission members.
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