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The Supreme Court of Ohio overturned the initially passed state legislative maps, arguing that they unfairly favored Republicans against the guidance of Ohio's 2015 redistricting amendment that seeks to limit partisan gerrymandering. [5] The legislature responded by passing new plans which made few modifications to the initially-passed plan. [6]
The Ohio Collective Bargaining Limit Repeal appeared on the November 8, 2011 general election ballot in the state of Ohio as a veto referendum.Senate Bill 5 (SB5) was repealed by Ohio voters after a campaign by firefighters, police officers and teachers against the measure, [1] which would have limited collective bargaining for public employees in the state.
Although there is some dispute about whether Issue 1 will require gerrymandering, the Toledo Blade Editorial Board has said that "there is an element of gerrymandering in the [Issue 1] amendment." Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was also quoted saying, "Ohio would actually end up with a system that mandates map drawers to produce gerrymandered ...
The redistricting of United States congressional districts is made by the legislatures of the states every 10 years, immediately following the official announcement of the federal census that serves as the basis of the apportionment. It was long the practice that the apportionment thus made stood until after the next decennial census.
A 2019 law banning most abortions in Ohio is unconstitutional following an abortion referendum last year, the state's Republican attorney general said in a court filing Monday. The filing comes ...
Attorney General Dave Yost approved the summary for the proposed amendment after the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the review in late October following Yost’s rejection based on the title.
Ohio Issue 1, the Congressional Redistricting Procedures Amendment, was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on the May 8, 2018 ballot in Ohio. The ballot measure was approved with 74.89% of the vote.
That comes six weeks after the Ohio Supreme Court said ruling on the title did not fall under the attorney general's responsibilities.