Proposition 1: How & when will it be implemented? (Columbus, Congress: appointed, 2015)

[Natural510]

I would like to know more about this huge victory over gerrymandering in Ohio, but it's getting drowned out by all the Prop 3 coverage. Where can I find more details about how this committee will be implemented and when they will move forward?

[captainclipper]

"Issue 1 will change the legislative redistricting process starting in 2021, when the lines are scheduled to be drawn again"

Some more info here:

Voters approve issue to reform Ohio's redistricting process | The Columbus Dispatch

[Natural510]

Thanks, captain.

[MrDog1993]

The first election that will use the lines drawn by prop 1 will be in 2022. The old lines still have 2016, 2018, and 2020.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by Natural510

I would like to know more about this huge victory over gerrymandering in Ohio, but it's getting drowned out by all the Prop 3 coverage. Where can I find more details about how this committee will be implemented and when they will move forward?

It's not a huge victory. It really doesn't change much. It doesn't even apply to Congressional districts.

Legislators remain in control of the redistricting process.

Ohio badly needs another Constitutional amendment that is not prepared by legislators and totally excludes politicians from the redistricting process.

I would like to see a plan that sets standards for the most compact districts possible, scored as well by the fewest mean average political subdivisions in each Ohio legislative and Congressional district.

A committee of statisticians appointed from major universities would prepare a preliminary plan, and anybody could submit an alternative plan. The plan that best met the established Constitutional parameters would take effect. If none of the alternative submitted plans met the parameters better than the preliminary plan, the preliminary plan would take effect. Court challenges to ascertain the best plan would be permitted.

No politicians. No gerrymandering.

Some persons object to such an objective redistricting process because some districts might not be "competitive." The issue is who makes districts "competitive."

The most important goal should be to end gerrymandering, and there is no guarantee that the recent amendment, prepared by Ohio legislators, will make districts much less offensive to those of us who believe in the democratic process.

And we certainly need an end to the gross gerrymandering in Ohio ASAP, not in 2022.

[armourereric]

It is probably too late, but some advise from a Californian: Please make sure the commission can put those giving testimony under oath with penalty of perjury. We set of a citizens commission to mitigate gerrymandering only to find that public hearings are flooded with "little old lady from Pasadena" types with hand drawn maps with suggested boundary changes only to find that they are in reality a national official from SEIU pushing a pro-democrat map change.