{"id":496,"date":"2024-05-31T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/?post_type=work&p=496"},"modified":"2025-01-06T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:31:44","slug":"fair-and-transparent-mapmaking-2","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/work\/fair-and-transparent-mapmaking-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We Fought for Redistricting Reform in 2024"},"template":"","class_list":["post-496","work","type-work","status-publish","hentry","work_type-campaign"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Ohio politicians and lobbyists manipulate voting districts to protect their interests and guarantee their re-election. In 2024, Common Cause Ohio joined redistricting reform partners in the Fair Districts coalition to mobilize volunteers to collect signatures, educate voters and champion the need for the Citizens Not Politicians ballot initiative. Learn about our efforts.","featured_image":16465,"work_type":164,"related_issues":[62,420],"location":38},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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The Battle for Fair Maps in Ohio in 2024<\/h2>\r\nIn 2024, Ohioans had the opportunity to take the redistricting process away from elected officials and give the power to draw the lines to an independent citizens redistricting commission. Common Cause Ohio worked with the Citizens Not Politicians<\/a> campaign to ban gerrymandering in Ohio once and for all. It was an epic battle with its roots in prior redistricting reform efforts, the earliest of which started back in the 1980s. Read more about the battle to end gerrymandering in Ohio<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThanks to confusion, obfuscation and outright lies from the opposition, in the end the Citizens Not Politicians ballot initiative fell short at the ballot box. But volunteer teams across the state organized by Common Cause Ohio and our coalition partners did heroic work collecting signatures, educating the public, and fighting for fair maps and a stronger democracy. This work will have a lasting impact!<\/span>\r\n\r\nHere are some stats about the work Common Cause members and our coalition partners did together in 2023-2024:<\/span>\r\n