Citizens Not Politicians

Ohio voters have rejected a change that would have removed politicians from the process of drawing congressional and legislative districts.

Opponents of Ohio's Issue 1 say the ballot language is fair and accurate, but backers of the redistricting amendment say the wording is confusing to voters.

A bus tour by Republicans is part of the plan to convince early voters in Ohio to vote against Issue 1.

A constitutional amendment on Ohio's fall ballot seeks to ban elected officials from the legislative and congressional line-drawing process. But some of those politicians are fighting it.

The Ohio Ballot Board made final changes to the wording after the court ruled on previous summary language earlier this week.

The ad began airing Tuesday, just one day before the Ohio Ballot Board was set to meet to formalize controversial ballot summary language.

Supporters of the amendment to change the redistricting process have filed a lawsuit against the five members of the Ohio Ballot Board, though two of them didn’t vote for the language at the center of the suit.

The group Citizens Not Politicians filed their lawsuit with the Ohio Supreme Court after the Ballot Board's approval of wording that voters will see this fall.

Citizens Not Politicians, the group bringing the ballot issue, said the Republican-dominated Ohio Ballot Board "manipulated" language before approving it.

Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has proposed a three-page ballot language summary, which supporters of the amendment said is an effort to rig the election.