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A Special Report from The Toledo Blade:
PART I: Ohio, California take divisive redistricting wars to ballot box
Voters in California and Ohio, two states with rich histories of gerrymandering, could bulldoze the national political balance this fall if they decide to write politicians out of the redistricting business…
PART III: Redistricting plan touted as mandate for competition
Ohio’s last truly competitive congressional election came in 1996, when U.S. Reps. Ted Strickland, Dennis Kucinich, and Bob Ney all eked out wins by 5 percentage points or less. In the decade since, only three of the state’s 74 U.S. House races have come down to single digits…
A Washington Post editorial on the same topic…