“This just tells me that they have no interest in drawing fair maps, they have no interest in doing the right thing”
showed courts on all levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court, did not agree that racial demographics should be shoved to the side when debating voting districts.
But in expressing doubts about the process considering the elected officials on the redistricting commission, Tom Roberts, a former state senator and the current president of the NAACP’s Ohio chapter, citedexpressing the need for maps to be passed by the end of September in order to be used in the November 2024 general election.
The former elected official said he’s “not optimistic” that the ORC will do “any more than they did the last time.” attempting to revise the redistricting process yet again by replacing the politicians on the Ohio Resdistricting Commission with an Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission.rejected by the Ohio Attorney General’s officeThe idea of changing the way legislative and congressional maps are drawn was put to legislators in a recent where 100% of Democratic legislators polled said changes should be made, and 71% of Republican participants disagreed.
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