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Ohio AG Twice Rejects Ballot Language for Citizen-Led Redistricting Commission
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Yup. They just kept submitting maps that were getting rejected for being unconstitutional and eventually the court just had to let it go because you can't just not have an election and they couldn't do anything else about it.
We need to add some kind of recourse to the rules. Something like "if you can't put together a constitutional map by the deadline, then the minority party gets to submit one for consideration instead".
Like if you can't make a constitutional map, or special election for either replacing you, (the elected officials) or a panel of people to make a map. But also I semi wonder if you could just have a computer do it. Just try to split up counties as close to 50/50
Agreed, but the goal shouldn't be 50/50, but to properly represent the people. Each area is different, but generally speaking, urban areas should form a district with other urban areas, and rural areas should form a district with other rural areas.
If the goal is to match the statewide partisan split, we should just move to proportional representation.
Fair. But the. The government doesn't do that too greatly either though. But I do agree and that's my bad.