This summer, 535,005 voters backed a ballot initiative to remove gerrymandering from Ohio politics for good.
The measure has qualified to be Issue 1 in November, but politicians Republicans have put an obstacle in its way: A distorted and deceptive description of the measure that will appear on the ballot.
Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose is trying to trick Ohioans into voting against their own interests. Last year, it was LaRose who attempted to persuade Ohio voters to make it harder to directly amend the state constitution by ballot issue, but Ohio voters cast 57% of their ballots against the brazen attempt.
LaRose with the help of two other prominent Republicans approved language that if the issue passed, it would promote gerrymandering, the precise opposite of what Citizens Not Politicians would do.
Citizens Not Politicians, the coalition behind that ballot initiative to end gerrymandering, is suing to correct the language of Issue 1.
Ohio’s Supreme Court is weighted 4-3 Republican, but retired Supreme Court chief justice Maureen O’Connor, is pushing in favor of the Citzens Not Politicians’ plan.
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