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Earlier today, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) accepted ballot language for a proposed independent redistricting amendment to the state constitution after the group behind the proposal fixed a small language typo.
In a massive win for reproductive rights, voters in Republican-leaning Ohio overcame Republican obstruction and overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that will enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution.
Just six days after Ohio voters began receiving ballots for the upcoming November election, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) canceled 26,666 voter registrations in the state.
A proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would implement an independent redistricting commission in the state suffered a setback yesterday after the group leading the proposal discovered a single typographical error in the amendment’s previously approved summary.
On Monday, Oct. 2, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) accepted ballot language for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would create an independent redistricting commission in the state.
On Tuesday, Sept. 26, the Ohio Redistricting Commission (ORC) voted unanimously to pass new state legislative maps for the 2020 redistricting cycle, more than two years since the process began.
On Wednesday, Sept. 20, during the Ohio Redistricting Commission’s (ORC) first meeting since it was reconstituted, the ORC voted 4-2 along party-lines to use legislative maps proposed by Republicans as the ORC’s working draft, which will be subject to public review.
On Tuesday, Sept. 19, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the Ohio Ballot Board to make a small tweak to the ballot language for the citizen-led abortion rights amendment.
On Tuesday, Sept. 19, Democrats on the Ohio Redistricting Commission released their proposals for the state’s legislative maps.
On Thursday, Sept. 14, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) once again rejected ballot language for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would create a citizen-led, independent redistricting commission in the state.