State Rep. Letson proposes plan to redraw legislative districts

COLUMBUS — Democrats in the Ohio House are backing a new plan for redrawing the state’s legislative districts that they say will remove partisanship from the process.

The resolution, offered by Rep. Tom Letson of Warren, D-64th, calls for a public competition to draw state legislative district lines and a nonpartisan arbiter to confirm the results.

“The House reapportionment reform plan takes the politics out of reapportionment by providing specific criteria as to how district lines are to be drawn,” Letson said during a press conference today at the Statehouse. “This, in turn, makes each district more competitive.”

The current reapportionment process is overseen by a board that meets every 10 years to redraw legislative districts based on new census statistics.

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