Bipartisan Congressional Redistricting Reform Amendment – Petitions

July 1, 2017

306,000+  valid signatures – twice the number required – are needed to ensure the Bipartisan Congressional Redistricting Reform Amendment is placed on the November 2018 General Election ballot. INTERESTED IN SIGNING A PETITION? INTERESTED IN CIRCULATING A PETITION?

Coalition Website: The Fair Districts = Fair Elections Coalition
Official Campaign Website: Fair Districts = Fair Elections

Check out Ohio Democratic Party three steps to end gerrymandering in Ohio
and find out where petitions are available near you HERE.

Required to collect 152,796 valid signatures in at least 44 out of the 88 Ohio counties
(5% of voters who cast ballots for the office of governor in that county
in the last Gubernatorial election.)

The Governor’s Race Percentage Chart
outlines the number of signatures needed for each county
for statewide ballot issues, has been updated, is now available
and is based on turnout in the most recent gubernatorial election – November 2014.

For more details, visit Ohio Secretary of State’s website:
Putting an Issue on the Ballot.

Your assistance with this campaign is GREATLY appreciated!
As new information becomes available with campaign,
it will be posted!

Fair Congressional Districts for Ohio is a broad coalition of good-government groups that is working to pass an amendment to the Ohio constitution to reform our procedures and criteria for drawing new congressional district boundaries following each decennial census.

Our proposed constitutional initiative builds on the success of the bipartisan Issue 1, which was endorsed by 71.5 percent of Ohio’s voters in the 2015 general election. It would transfer from the legislature to the new bipartisan Ohio Redistricting Commission responsibility for drawing new district lines, and would allow any Ohio citizen to submit a proposed plan for the Commission’s consideration. Any plan would have to receive at least two votes from the representatives of each party on the 7-member Commission in order to be adopted.

Our amendment would also require that any plan must strictly follow a series of good-government criteria.

 

Bipartisan Congressional Redistricting Reform Amendment

The Fair Districts = Fair Elections Coalition
supporting this initiative includes:

The League of Women Voters of Ohio
Common Cause Ohio
AAUW of Ohio
America Votes
Applied Information Resources
Asian Services in Action
Coalition on Housing and Homelessness in Ohio (COHHIO)
Columbus Chapter Alumnae of Delta Sigma Theta
Democratic Voices
Equality Toledo
Fair Elections Legal Network
Faith Coalition for the Common Good
Faith in Public Life
Independent Lines Advocacy
Innovation Ohio,
National Council of Jewish Women Cleveland Section
National Council of Jewish Women Columbus Section
No Labels Ohio
Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates
Nuns on the Bus Ohio
Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Ohio Council of Churches
Ohio Education Association
Ohio Environmental Council
Ohio Farmers Union
Ohio Student Association
Ohio Unity Coalition
Ohio Voice
Ohio Voter Rights Coalition
Policy Matters Ohio
ProgressOhio
Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio