Ohio Supreme Court can rectify failed, unconstitutional redistricting

[Nevilledog]

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/10/ohio-supreme-court-can-rectify-failed-unconstitutional-redistricting-j-bennett-guess.html

CLEVELAND -- You can tell when Ohio elected officials feel confident that they have sufficiently rigged the system so that they’re no longer accountable to voters in fair and credibly contested elections. They become quite brazen in flouting the law.

That’s what just happened in Ohio, where the Ohio Redistricting Commission, in voting 5-2 along strictly party lines on Sept. 16, shamelessly violated the Ohio Constitution by enacting new legislative districts designed to entrench a Republican veto-proof supermajority in both chambers of the General Assembly. The Republican commission members awarded their party more than two-thirds of legislative seats, despite the fact that just under half of Ohio’s electorate typically votes for Democratic candidates.

In doing this, the Commission had the audacity to reject the Ohio Constitution. In 2015, an overwhelming majority of Ohioans, disgusted with gerrymandering, had amended their constitution to prevent precisely this. The constitution now plainly says that “no general assembly district plan shall be drawn primarily to favor or disfavor a political party” and that the number of seats held by a party “shall correspond closely to the statewide preferences of the voters” over the previous decade.

During the last 10 years, Ohio Republican candidates garnered between 46.2% and 59.7% of statewide vote totals, but the new maps will bestow 67% of House seats and 69% of Senate seats upon Republicans. The new maps do not correspond at all, much less “correspond closely,” with a decade of Ohio’s voter preferences, as the constitution dictates.

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[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Fascists don't care for your stinking democracy or it's filthy laws.

[samsingh]

2. any republican who accepts a win in gerrymandered states opposes democracy