Redistricting

A constitutional amendment on Ohio's fall ballot seeks to ban elected officials from the legislative and congressional line-drawing process. But some of those politicians are fighting it.

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Joe Deters says Democrats only want to change the rules on redistricting because they can't win under the present rules.

The ad began airing Tuesday, just one day before the Ohio Ballot Board was set to meet to formalize controversial ballot summary language.

Despite objections from the group behind the amendment effort, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled the ballot language needed only minor changes. Now voters will once again have the chance to vote on how congressional maps are drawn.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled most of the three-page summary that supporters of Issue 1 say is biased and unfair will be what voters will see when they cast their ballots.

Much like the ballot language rewritten by the GOP, the meme from the Ohio Republican Party misstates what the Citizens Not Politicians ballot issue would do.

Ohio's chief elections officer rammed through ballot language last week aimed at wrecking the chances for redistricting reform.

Citizens Not Politicians, the group bringing the ballot issue, said the Republican-dominated Ohio Ballot Board "manipulated" language before approving it.

The group behind the proposed constitutional amendment has submitted language the Republican-dominated Ballot Board could adopt. But if the past is prologue, it probably won't.

Citizens Not Politicians' anti-gerrymandering ballot issue will be decided by Ohio voters in November. Ohio Republicans fear voters may take away their power.