Here is the latest information on the redistricting process in Ohio. Please join us on Thursday, April 28 at 11:30 as we Rally for Fair Maps and Fair Elections! Зарегистрироваться здесь.

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Карты Палаты представителей и Сената Огайо

• After the Ohio Redistricting Commission approved a fourth set of Ohio House and Ohio Senate maps on 3/28/2022, the League of Women Voters, et al., подал возражения.
• The Ohio Supreme Court сбит this fourth set of General Assembly maps on April 14. Their decision was not a big surprise since the fourth set of maps was nearly identical to the third set that had already been sent out.
• In their decision, the Court gave the Commission until May 6th to come up with a new set of maps. They also indicated that the Commission should start with the maps drawn by the independent mappers.
• On April 20, the panel of three federal judges issued a decision in the судебный процесс brought by a group of Republican activists seeking to have struck down maps reinstated by federal courts before the May 3rd primary. They officially gave the Redistricting Commission until May 28 to draw a new set of maps, but at the same time, they indicated that if the Commission did NOT approve a new set of maps, the court would adopt the third set of legislative maps—maps already struck down as unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court. 
• Unfortunately, this means that even though the Ohio Supreme Court has told the Commission to create new maps by May 6, and although the panel of federal judges has told them to create new maps by May 28, the Commission is most likely to do nothing at all. They WANT to use the maps that have been struck down as unconstitutional; knowing that’s what they’ll get if they do nothing just incentivizes doing nothing.

Обвинения в неуважении к суду 

• Contempt charges raised by the Ohio Supreme Court were “continued”. The заказ did not set a new date for the hearing but was postponed indefinitely.
• The contempt cases brought by the LWV and the Elias group were dismissed on April 14.

Карта Конгресса

• В пятницу, 18 марта, Верховный суд Огайо вынес решение отрицая попытку заявителей признать недействительным второй план перераспределения избирательных округов конгресса как ненадлежащее с точки зрения процедуры. Суд пояснил, что после того, как первая карта конгресса была отклонена, он не сохранил юрисдикцию над процессом составления карты. Поэтому против второй карты должна быть подана совершенно новая и отдельная жалоба. 
• 21 марта Национальный фонд действий по перераспределению избирательных округов подал заявление а new lawsuit оспаривание второй карты Конгресса. 
• 22 марта ACLU и LWV подали иск дополнительный иск с просьбой внести исправления в два конкретных округа не на 2022 год, а на 2024 год. 

Еще раз спасибо за продолжение борьбы за справедливые районы!