NEW: Ohio voters will vote under an illegally gerrymandered congressional map for the 2024

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NEW: Ohio voters will vote under an illegally gerrymandered congressional map for the 2024 election after the Ohio Supreme Court dismisses lawsuits challenging the districts. Despite the dismissal, new districts will be drawn for 2026.

The plaintiffs requested for the court to dismiss their challenges, reasoning that GOP lawmakers and the far-right Ohio Supreme Court could approve an even more unfair map for 2024. Ohio groups are working towards a ballot measure to enact a citizen-led redistricting commission.

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Ohio Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuits Over Congressional Map

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, Sept. 7, the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a set of lawsuits that challenged the state’s congressional map for partisan gerrymandering.

This decision preserves the status quo, leaving in place a congressional map that the Ohio Supreme Court previously struck down for being a partisan gerrymander. Ohioans voted under this map during the 2022 elections and will again vote under it in 2024.

Nevertheless, the pro-voting groups behind the lawsuits — who requested that the court dismiss their cases — maintain that “this is the best result under the circumstances for the people of Ohio who deserve certainty about the congressional map that they will be voting under in this cycle, at the very least.” In other words, Ohio Republicans will not have the opportunity to further gerrymander the state’s congressional map before 2024.

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