An issue voters will see on their ballots next week, is issue one, involving the way lines are drawn up for congressional districts.
Currently, state lawmakers are the ones that draw the lines. The bill would promote a bipartisan way to draw the lines. A map would need to be approved by 60 percent of the majority party and half of the minority party and would last for ten years. Ohio Northern Professor Katy Rossiter, who previously worked for the census bureau, said this is a step in the right direction for legislators. A negative she noted is it is still possible to pass a map without a majority vote.
Rossiter likes the timing of this issue because it is good to have things in place before lines are re-drawn after the 2020 census.
