The Ohio Republicans’ fourth attempt to pass a highly gerrymandered redistricting map has been rejected by the state’s Supreme Court, which found the map did not meet the fairness requirements previously outlined by the court, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

In the 4-3 decision, one Republican member of the bench, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, sided with all three Democrats to overturn the map and send the issue back to the state’s redistricting committee.  The judges found that the map violated efforts to fairly assign districts based on the citizenry’s historic 54% Republican-46% Democratic split in voters in the state.

The jurists stated that too many of the districts laid out in the Republican-drawn map were toss-up districts taken from previously strong-Democratic areas.  The panel recommended the commission refer to maps constructed by paid consultants who put out more equitable maps.

Three Republican judges voiced opposition to the court’s ruling, saying the decision would have adverse effects on the state’s primary, which is scheduled August 2nd.  The majority ruled that if the map is presented by the court’s new deadline, May 9th, the districts should be set by the primary, and that the primary date could be pushed back if needed.

“We are stuck in a time loop, like the characters in the movie ‘Groundhog Day,'” wrote Justice Sharon Kennedy, a Republican running for chief justice. “The movie, of course, was comedic entertainment, but the outcome of these cases is anything but that for the people of this state.”