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TexasTowelie

(116,758 posts) Sun Oct 3, 2021, 02:01 AM Oct 2021

Legislature Misses Deadline For New Congressional Map

The Ohio Redistricting Commission is going back to work, this time drawing a new Congressional district map after state lawmakers failed to agree on one before the constitutional deadline.

The state legislature was required to create a new Congressional district map by the end of September. Now that they've missed the deadline, it's the Ohio Redistricting Commission's turn to draw the lines.

Ohio will lose a Congressional seat, going from 16 to 15.

Voters approved a new process to draw the Congressional map in 2018, in an effort to stop gerrymandering, where the districts are drawn to favor one party over another.

Legislative leaders say the delay in U.S. Census Bureau data is the reason for missing the deadline. The redistricting commission also missed a deadline while drawing the House and Senate districts.

Read more: https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2021-09-30/legislature-misses-deadline-for-new-congressional-map

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Legislature Misses Deadline For New Congressional Map (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP

That does not tell half the story of what DeWine True Blue American Oct 2021 #1

Laboratories of Democracy, 'tis said The Fifty Stateman Oct 2021 #2

True Blue American

(18,161 posts)

1. That does not tell half the story of what DeWine

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Oct 3, 2021, 03:18 AM

Oct 2021

His gang and Son are trying to do in Ohio after voters voted twice on a Constitutional Amendment for an unbiased committee to redistrict.

DeWine put himself and 4 others on the committee plus 2 Democrats. They then voted 5 to 2 for a map as bad as the last one.

Three lawsuits have been filed and Buckeyes are angry. We presented 1.3 million signatures at the State House, put it on the ballot twice! Passed overwhelmingly. I am urging all to protest against this blatant cheating.

The kicker? Mike DeWine’s Son refuses to recuse himself from the case. Talk about ethics? This good Catholic family has none.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/09/clevelanders-overwhelmingly-outraged-by-gop-led-maps-at-ohio-redistricting-commission-hearing-at-tri-c-corporate-campus.html

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/01/ohio-gop-to-vote-on-withdrawing-endorsement-of-candidate-over-use-of-cheating-website.html

https://sanduskyregister.com/news/344068/theyre-cheating-ohio-voters/

The Fifty Stateman

(76 posts)

2. Laboratories of Democracy, 'tis said

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Oct 3, 2021, 05:10 AM

Oct 2021

And that's where Democrats need to take the fight! How do you think the Reprehensible Party has wormed its way into political advantages it doesn't deserve?

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