The Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting Commission passed a new redistricting map which gives the GOP a significant advantage in elections, violating a directive from the court that rejected the last version, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
The new maps give Republicans a 57-42 advantage in the state house and 20-13 advantage in the state senate. After reviewing an earlier version that was more gerrymandered, a judge ordered the Commission to create maps that reflected the 54% Republican/46% Democratic ratio that voters in the state had shown over the previous decade.
“It is shameful that we are here again, adopting yet another unconstitutional map in direct contradiction to the Ohio Supreme Court,” said Democratic state house Minority Leader-elect Allison Russo. “I’ve felt a little bit like I am a mom with my two teenagers when I ask them to fold and put away the laundry and they simply have stuffed it in their drawers and called the job done.”