The same day that mapmakers were finalized to bring about a fourth version of the legislative redistricting maps, Democratic members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission asked the state’s highest court to move the May 3 primary.
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Yost had said in a letter to commission members that the two, who had worked on redistricting maps for the state of Virginia, were available immediately. He also stated in his university profile that he was a co-principle investigator on the Public Mapping Project on drawing electoral districts. Auditor Keith Faber and Secretary of State Frank LaRose called into question McDonald’s “conflicts” with working in Ohio, with LaRose saying he was uncomfortable knowing McDonald had “some affiliation” with Marc Elias. Elias is a lawyer representing the National Redistricting Action Fund, a party to redistricting lawsuits in the state.
At the end of the night, there were no formal objections to choosing McDonald and Johnson as the independent mapdrawers. Attorneys for Russo and Sykes brought up the existence of a federal lawsuit from Republican Ohio voters, who wish to take the case out of the supreme court’s hands, in favor of a three-judge panel to decide whether or not previously adopted maps can be used.
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