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Still got almost 60% of the seats in the ohio house. because the partisan districts were gerrymandered so badly. that happened in 2012. but according to ohio voters, that should not happen again. it was a vote last night on a constitutional amendment to do districts in that state on a non-partisan basis from here on out. that amendment passed with 71% of the vote. it's not for ohio's seats in congress, this is just for the state legislature. but still. 71% of the vote. that's a big deal. and somewhere in america in law school that tulty housing, lawrence lessig is celebrating ohio or cursing h...

Ohio shouldn't be able to gerrymandering its districts anymore. the problem with this in ohio, by 2012, the districts so screwed up and partisan even though democrats got more than 50,000 more votes than republicans did in that year's elections, republicans still even though they got less votes still got almost 60% of the seats in the ohio house. because the partisan districts were gerrymandered so badly. that happened in 2012. but according to ohio voters, that should not happen again. it was a vote last night on a constitutional amendment to do districts in that state on a non-partisan basis...