The Ohio Supreme Court will be reviewing the 4th set of maps for new state legislative districts.
The Ohio Redistricting Commission passed the 4th version with a 4 to 3 vote on Monday. The likelihood of the court approving those maps is uncertain after the state's political mapmaking body created them from a previously rejected set of maps.
With approving this set of maps, the commission set aside the efforts of two independent mapmakers, whom they paid $450 dollars an hour for four days of work. Most of their work could have been watched by the public, step-by-step online. The two map makers were brought in to create the districts that reflect state voter preferences of 54% of the district leaning Republican and 46% Democratic.
The three previous maps were rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court because they say there were more districts that were Republican leaning.
