The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a pair of state legislative maps for a third time and ordered them to be redrawn, casting doubt on the state’s upcoming May 3 primary. In yet another 4–3 decision, the high court found the bipartisan Ohio Redistricting Commission’s third attempt at drawing the House and Senate maps had once again failed to pass constitutional muster, and ordered a new set of maps to be drawn by March 28. The seven-member redistricting commission should draft maps in public, convene meetings regularly, and use a different mapmaker in its fourth attempt of drafting the legislative maps, the court’s majority said in its decision, The Columbus Dispatch reported. “The commission should retain an independent map drawer—who answers to all commission members, not only to the Republican legislative leaders—to draft a plan through a transparent process,” the court wrote. “Resolving this self-created chaos thus depends not on …
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