It said Florida and Ohio passed prohibitions on gerrymandering by referendum but they were flagrantly ignored by their legislatures (which are heavily gerrymandered.)
That their state courts haven’t stopped the illegal maps as per the new laws. Florida has only a statutory law referendum, Ohio passes constitutional amendments, which can’t be undone by the legislature without a supermajority.
But go figure, the legislature doesn’t feel like they need to honor their state constitution where all of their authority resides.
There is a link in the article to FL, but not the Ohio thing, anyone know any more about this?
Closest thing I know of is 2024 Ohio Issue 1 which was an attempt to create a citizen led committee that would draw the maps. A deceptive opposition campaign framed it as “requiring gerrymandering” and the Republican Secretary of State changed the ballot language to read that it would remove protections against gerrymandering. It was defeated, so I guess the article is correct if you go by that ballot language that was voted down.
So yeah there are protections against gerrymandering but only for the party who has the supermajority.
It said Florida and Ohio passed prohibitions on gerrymandering by referendum but they were flagrantly ignored by their legislatures (which are heavily gerrymandered.)
That their state courts haven’t stopped the illegal maps as per the new laws. Florida has only a statutory law referendum, Ohio passes constitutional amendments, which can’t be undone by the legislature without a supermajority.
But go figure, the legislature doesn’t feel like they need to honor their state constitution where all of their authority resides.
There is a link in the article to FL, but not the Ohio thing, anyone know any more about this?
Closest thing I know of is 2024 Ohio Issue 1 which was an attempt to create a citizen led committee that would draw the maps. A deceptive opposition campaign framed it as “requiring gerrymandering” and the Republican Secretary of State changed the ballot language to read that it would remove protections against gerrymandering. It was defeated, so I guess the article is correct if you go by that ballot language that was voted down.
So yeah there are protections against gerrymandering but only for the party who has the supermajority.