Through using their majority and obscuring the language of a ballot initiative meant to eliminate gerrymandering, Ohio ...
In July, DeWine said something needed to be done to address gerrymandering but that Issue 1 was the wrong answer. The ...
Whether it was confusion over ballot language or truly a desire to maintain the system already in place, Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected an amendment that would have established a citizen-led ...
Voters rejected Ohio Issue 1 Tuesday, choosing to stick with the status quo instead of setting up a new citizen commission ...
Issue 1 would have changed who draws the legislative boundaries for the Ohio General Assembly and congressional districts. It led to partisan bickering between Democrats and Republicans who accused ...
This allowed them to pick with precision which voters they’d like to have in each district—a process known as gerrymandering. Typically, the party in control of the state legislature has two ways to ...
North Carolina voters once again find their congressional districts are different from two years ago, thanks to changes in ...
During that bipartisan campaign, called Fair Districts for Ohio, they were promised the new system would "protect against gerrymandering.” In 2018, voters gave the commission an additional role ...
The institutionalization of gerrymandering is a glaring example of this abuse. When legislative districts are drawn to strengthen the voice of those in power, inequality gains traction.
His ballot read that voting ‘yes’ would set up a panel “required to gerrymander the boundaries of state legislative and congressional districts,” and that it would “repeal constitutional protections ...
These are usually the desperate hours. Eight days remain until the general election. Some claim anything goes at this stage, but we've already seen and heard just about everything. Nicole Chavez, a ...
33 state Senate districts and 99 state House districts. Citizens Not Politicians and Ohio Works are both using the term “gerrymandering,” a practice where political maps are manipulated to ...