Republican state legislative leaders say they鈥檙e putting together a bipartisan group to come up with a new way to draw Congressional districts. This comes as a citizens鈥� group frustrated with inaction on the issue is planning its own proposal to present to voters.
Sen. Matt Huffman of Lima says the plan will be modeled after the one created by lawmakers and approved by voters in 2015, which overhauled the way state lawmakers鈥� districts are drawn. That issue was endorsed by a group now circulating petitions to put its own Congressional redistricting plan on next year鈥檚 ballot. Huffman says the one lawmakers will present won鈥檛 be perfect, but will be constructed with a careful process.
鈥淜eep in mind that the last two efforts that were put on the ballot, really, by an outside group who said, 鈥榳e鈥檙e just going to do what we think is right鈥� have failed pretty miserably.鈥�
The group Fair Congressional Districts for Ohio has said its members support legislative efforts to change the map-drawing process, but that they鈥檒l take it to the ballot themselves if necessary.
