Group seeks to change way redistricting is done in Ohio

Group seeks to change way redistricting is done in Ohio

YOUNGSTOWN — A coalition of good-government groups, looking to get enough signatures to place a congressional and state legislative redistricting overhaul bill on the November ballot, is working with the organization that led the charge to defeat Senate Bill 5.

Voters First, the group seeking to change how redistricting is done, needs 385,245 valid signatures — a number equal to 10 percent of those who voted in the 2010 gubernatorial election — on petitions by July 4 to get the proposal on the November general election ballot.

Members of Voters First and We Are Ohio, the main group behind the defeat in November 2011 of SB5, held a press conference today in Youngstown to announce the partnership.

Elected officials currently draw legislative lines. The Voters First proposal would have a 12-member citizens group draw the lines.

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