Editorial Roundup: Ohio The Associated Press
Editorial: Redistricting just got more complicated
Ohio’s experiments in drawing fairer congressional and state legislative districts haven’t even gotten underway and already they’re in trouble.
That’s because the U.S. Census Bureau will be late in reporting the data needed to redraw the districts. Very late.
The bureau had planned to deliver the data by March 31, but announced Friday that it wouldn’t do so until Sept. 30. Other states are in the same boat.
It was, as Ohio House Minority Leader Emilia Strong Sykes, D-Akron, said, “a disappointing setback.” She called on the legislative task force responsible for redistricting to begin its work, including seeking public input.