Morning Digest: Check out our new explainer of Ohio's proposed redistricting reform

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● OH Redistricting: A new proposal is making its way toward next year's ballot in Ohio that would dramatically reform the way the state draws its maps. The amendment would end decades of GOP gerrymandering by placing redistricting in the hands of an independent commission tasked with drawing districts fair to both sides.

• Meet the commissioners. The new panel would be made up of equal numbers of Democrats, Republicans, and independents, and all of them would have to be free from any political entanglements—no politicians or lobbyists need apply.
• One rule to rule them all. The amendment lays out a number of criteria that map-makers must follow, like ensuring districts are contiguous and respecting communities of interest. But the most critical is one that would require any map to reflect the state's partisan balance, which could roll back Republican supermajorities.
• The path to the ballot. Organizers will need to collect more than 400,000 signatures by July to put it before voters in November of 2024. If they succeed, it would only need a simple majority to pass after voters resoundingly rejected a GOP-backed amendment earlier this month to bump the threshold up to 60%.

Get the full details on this bold plan—including what happens if the commission fails to agree on new maps—in our comprehensive analysis.