Ohio will turn more blue if redistricting ballot measure passes: election integrity advocates say

Ohio voters will decide in the general election whether to amend their state constitution to create a new redistricting commission, but election integrity advocates warn that the amendment will result in making the state more Democratic.

A proposed constitutional amendment is on the November ballot that could alter the makeup of Ohio’s state legislature in future elections. A similar constitutional amendment passed in Michigan in 2018, which resulted in giving Democrats control of the state legislature.

If passed, the proposed constitutional amendment, called Issue 1, would repeal sections of the state constitution regarding the current process for redistricting state legislative and congressional districts and replace them with about 16 pages of new language implementing the commission.