The Ohio Legislature approved a redrawn map of U.S. House districts in October. This procedure has never happened before in Ohio. It is aimed at keeping Democrats from serving in the U.S. House. I believe this process is illegal because the U.S. Constitution demands redistricting after every decennial census, not four years early.
The U.S. Supreme Court has established two principles to guide the redistricting. The first is population, the second is continuity, or proximity.
In the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Baker v. Carr (1962), federal judges were given power to require that congressional districts, as much as possible, be equal in population so as to achieve the principle “one man, one vote.” Each person’s vote is equal to every other. Redistricting now (2026) precludes the principle of “one person, one vote.”
The second principle, proximity, requires that districts must be in the same adjoining area and not meander through five counties to achieve a political advantage.
Tell your state representative that you oppose this type of redistricting. It is unfair and un-American.
Tim Bille, Malvern
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