Ohios Issue 1: the lefts sneaky redistrict power grab your states next

Once in a great while, what happens at the bottom of the ballot can reshape a state’s political future for decades to come. While New Yorkers on Election Day will vote on the controversial “Equal Rights Amendment,” Ohio is ground zero for an effort to wrest control away from the people and give it to unelected, Fauci-like bureaucrats to achieve “redistricting reform.” And the movement is anything but organic: It’s an out-of-state (and even international) attempt by left-wing politicians to trick voters into rewriting our state constitution by passing Issue 1.The ballot measure — masterminded by the likes of Barack Obama’s former Attorney General Eric Holder and Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias and bankrolled by over $20 million in dark money from leftist megadonors including George Soros and Hansjörg Wyss — would push Ohio away from representative government for purely partisan Democratic gain.And if it passes, it won’t stop in Ohio, but will become a blueprint for the rest of the nation. Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee is trying to fundamentally shift power away from the democratically elected voices of the people and toward a small unaccountable group that’s elected by no one.The Ohio Constitution states, “All political power is inherent in the people.” That forms the basis for our current redistricting process, which relies on elected representatives to create maps for congressional and state-legislature districts. Under that process — adopted in 2015  with bipartisan backing and over 70% support at the ballot box — Ohio’s state legislature selects two Republicans and two Democrats to join three statewide elected officials (governor, secretary of state and auditor) for this crucial work. Importantly, Ohioans chose not to hand this vital task to unelected bureaucrats. But under Issue 1’s byzantine procedures, ex-judges and an outside recruitment firm would draw up a list of 45 supposedly ...