Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has scheduled a Sept. 13 meeting for the redistricting commission to start creating new state legislative maps to replace those Ohio's Supreme Court rejected.
University of Cincinnati political scientist David Niven blames the disconnect between Ohio’s policy making and popular sentiment on gerrymandering: unfairly drawn legislative districts that the state’s Republicans designed to give their party disproportionate sway. Ohio’s congressional lines were also designed to maximize GOP power and minimize that of Democrats, Ohio’s Supreme Court has ruled.
But critics of the partisan process of drawing those lines say that mapmakers’ penchant for packing districts with high concentrations of voters who will reliably support one party only encourages political extremism, forcing candidates out of the ideological center and to the fringes of their own parties and driving bigger wedges between policymakers sent to statehouses and Congress.
Less than 20 percent of eligible voters participate in most congressional primaries, good government advocates Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, say in their book.
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