Redistricting

If you live in Cincinnati, Toledo or Akron — the major cities most impacted by the GOP maps — you had better gas up the car.

During the hearing, some of the justices honed in on the odd shapes of districts and the decision to split cities — like Covington, Bowling Green and Richmond — into several non-contiguous portions that sometimes include parts of other counties.

The map-drawing panel's session was cut short when members were unable to pick the co-chairs who would lead the panel.

After doing nothing for 16 months, Ohio Republicans on the redistricting commission are creating a false sense of urgency on making new state legislative maps.

It's not unusual for a first attempt at summary language to be rejected, so the group proposing the amendment said it will try again.

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Petitioners need to gather 1,000 signatures to get ballot language before the Ohio Attorney General for approval.

Ohioans have never been fond of Michigan, but "that state up north" has much to teach Ohio on drawing legislative district lines.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently said it is time for Ohio to take elected officials out of the process of drawing state legislative and congressional district lines. But voting rights activists see DeWine as part of the problem, not the solution.

A major U.S. Supreme Court case from North Carolina about a once-fringe election theory may end up getting tossed out of the high court now that a state court in GOP hands is rehearing the case. But Republican state lawmakers from Ohio have already teed up another redistricting case about the theory that's currently waiting for the justices to decide whether to take on.