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Change in redistricting process on Ohio ballot [View all]
Source: Youngstown News
Ohio voters next month will decide whether the state should move forward with a proposal to change the process for redrawing its political districts.
Debate over Issue 2 has been contentious. It proposes a 12-member commission of state residents to re-draw Ohio’s legislative and congressional maps every 10 years.
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The first nine members of the commission would be selected by lottery from 42 applicants placed into Republican, Democratic and unaffiliated pools by a panel of appeals-court judges. The first nine members selected would pick the other three.
Debate over Issue 2 has been contentious. It proposes a 12-member commission of state residents to re-draw Ohio’s legislative and congressional maps every 10 years.
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The first nine members of the commission would be selected by lottery from 42 applicants placed into Republican, Democratic and unaffiliated pools by a panel of appeals-court judges. The first nine members selected would pick the other three.
Read more: http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/oct/09/change-in-redistricting-process-on-ohio-/
I heard the Party Chair discuss this last night. If it passed, it would kick in immediately, and lines would be redrawn for the 2014 election.
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