It's official: Ohioans will vote on whether to remove politicians from redistricting this November.
  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    a 15-member panel of five Republicans, five Democrats and five independents would craft the maps

    retired judges would help select

    I don’t know if this will be an improvement, unelected officials appointing a panel to decide districts. It does get rid of politicians self serving motivations to redistrict but with no checks in place I feel this will lead to new issues.

    • curve@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      If you read the full text of the amendment you’ll see it has a lot of safeguards designed to ensure fair districts.

      https://www.citizensnotpoliticians.org/petition/

      This is unequivocally an improvement over the current process where legislators get to pick their voters and disenfranchise people.

      Note- you have to click the document itself to get the full PDF of it which is 31 pages long.