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WKSU WKSU listener Beki McCurdy stands by the front steps of her Alliance home. McCurdy asked WKSU's OH Really? why it seems nothing has been done yet regarding two redistricting reforms Ohio voters approved in 2015 and 2018. When Ohio legislators redrew the state’s congressional district map a decade ago, Stark County ended up split three ways among districts 7, 13, and 16. That won’t happen again when new maps are redrawn this year under a new process that aims to prevent gerrymandering, where lawmakers carve district lines to protect partisan seats. What comes next? You asked. We lo...

Listen • 7:46 "For many years after our votes have been manipulated, they created districts that leaned Republican or lean Democratic. And what happened is year after year, those gerrymanders were really robust every single year since the maps were drawn in 2011. There have been 12 Republicans elected to go to Congress and four Democrats year after year after year. And that manipulation of our vote is actually ends up being the manipulation of public policy. And so what we want is for all of us to participate in real elections," Turcer says.  In the Statehouse, Republic...