In a 4-3 decision, Republican members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission voted Monday night to pass slightly changed versions of Statehouse district maps previously rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court as unconstitutional.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.Commissioners said they did this to fulfill their obligation to send a map to the Secretary of State’s Office and the supreme court by the end of the night.
“I think that there’s a decent chance that this map won’t meet the court’s test,” Faber told reporters Monday night. In the original maps, 19 House districts fell under that range, but the Senate breakdown was the same, with seven Senate districts as “toss-ups.” In the process of passing the revised map on Monday, the GOP members also bypassed independent mapmakers’ proposals for House and Senate maps.The Ohio Redistricting Commission has spent the last seven straight days watching independent mapmakers put together a new set of legislative district maps from scratch.
The same could be said of the adopted maps, Dem commissioners argued, having heard from most GOP members that their first look at the new GOP-drawn maps was just before the Monday night hearing took place. The state supreme court singled out Huffman specifically in their most recent rejection of legislative maps, and targeted his knowledge of the constitutional provision regarding redistricting and incumbents.
Democratic commission members didn’t agree with the suggestion, and Russo said including that information might “taint” the mapmakers abilities to draw the maps purely within constitutional and legal boundaries.
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