COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Redistricting Commission met Tuesday to publicly lay out the ground rules it will follow ahead of a Saturday deadline set by a court order commanding the commission to draw more politically representative state legislative maps.
Gov. Mike DeWine convened the meeting of the seven-member commission, the first step toward eventually approving a new set of maps. The meeting follows a 4-3 Wednesday decision from the Ohio Supreme Court that rejected the last set of maps approved by commission Republicans as unconstitutional under Ohio’s new anti-gerrymandering rules.