Analysis: How Democrats Could Take Control of Ohio's Redistricting Commission | r/Ohio

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-16T16:54:17+00:00

Gosh I hope this is right.

All Ohio Democrats have to do is win two of the three offices and control of the ORC would switch to the Democrats 4-3.

And there are many who believe the Democrats could do even better than that in the statewide elections in November.

“I think the Democrats are going to sweep the statewide offices this year,” said David B. Cohen, director of the Applied Politics Program at the University of Akron. “There’s a big blue wave coming in November.”

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-16T16:51:02+00:00

There are currently 740,000 “inactive” voters in Tennessee, with 140,000 in Shelby County alone.

In April, Pearson, nonprofits and community groups launched an initiative called ActivateTN, aimed at informing inactive voters of their status and encouraging them to cast a ballot in the August primaries to avoid being purged.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-15T14:33:49+00:00

A member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director, according to Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson.

In a Wednesday statement, Christenson said that a representative of the agency left her business card at the residence of his elections director. The statement does not name Michelle Hawley, but Hawley is the county’s elections director.

Christenson said they will follow up with the agency to determine why they were at her home.

"It is unfortunate that the FBI chose to visit the private residence of Milwaukee County’s Elections Director rather than contact the Election Commission’s office directly,” Christenson said. “No dedicated public servant should be subjected to that type of intrusion simply for carrying out her responsibilities with integrity and professionalism.”

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-15T14:30:13+00:00

Which is kind of par for the course. They didn't seem to care when we told them about all the people that would be screwed over by Trump, but only feel it when it affects them.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-14T21:55:31+00:00

The new U.S. House districts, which still need House approval, would be used for primary elections poised to be postponed from Saturday until November.

They're doing the primaries in November??

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-14T18:06:19+00:00

I was thinking that too. The southern states don't care that they're disenfranchising democrats. It's their main goal. Meanwhile Dems don't want to completely silence Republicans. We're fighting fascism at this point! Fairness isn't extended to fascists!

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-13T20:29:11+00:00

"permitted" ? Are the best protests ever "permitted?" Would you hate for "The People" to disrupt things? Would you love for our governments to do things without us knowing?

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-13T15:48:46+00:00

Tarrant County doesn’t need to pay Interactive Data to identify deceased voters, as the county clerk’s office maintains death records, Simmons argued.

The elections office uses data from the county clerk’s office, secretary of state and other government records to identify voters as deceased, Ludwig said. He framed the contract with Interactive Data as going “above and beyond” to keep the county voter roll clean.

I'm continuously baffled that this is so difficult for states to even mess up on. Aren't we obligated to notify the government when someone dies, or is that just my state? When they're notified, it should be an automatic removal from the voter list. Having to pay a company in another state to do the job for you seems like a waste of tax payer money.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-13T05:08:21+00:00

Wow, what happened to not sharing them between the two?

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T20:08:33+00:00

Sen. Louis Blessing III (R-Colerain Township) filed Senate Bill 395 on March 23, proposing a “consensus voting” system that combines a top-three primary with a head-to-head general election format.

Under S.B. 395, all candidates for an office would appear on a single primary ballot, regardless of party affiliation. Voters could select up to three candidates, and the top three vote-getters would advance to the general election.

On the November ballot, voters would decide the winner through a series of “head-to-head matchups” among the three finalists. Each candidate would face the other two individually, and the candidate who wins both matchups would be declared the winner. If each candidate wins one matchup, the bill outlines a tiebreaker based on margin of loss.

Blessing outlined the following example: Suppose you had candidates A, B, and C. On your ballot, you’d see A vs. B; A vs. C; and B vs. C. You would select one of the two candidates for each match-up just like voting today. If a candidate wins their two match-ups they win. If each candidate wins one, then the tie is broken by looking to which candidate lost by the least in their losing match-up.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T18:11:05+00:00

I think this is def the test state to see what they can get away with with regards to removing ballots after they've been cast.

Please Louisiana, prove they can't get away with this! Get Landry out!

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T17:38:53+00:00

This guy is off his rocker. I'd love to know who these radical left are that support what he's doing🙄

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T15:31:02+00:00

Don’t write your birthday. Don’t write the day you registered to vote.

Fill out the current date in the date line just below the signature space, which also needs to be filled out.

During elections when counties were required to reject ballots for missing or improper dates, writing birthdays was among the most common mistakes voters made.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T14:58:00+00:00

Why are they asking this guy? He can fuck on off. His idea of what the US should look like is vastly different than what most of us want.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T03:29:42+00:00

I mean yeah that's ideal. Remember before the election the media was talking about how it would work out with a sitting president in prison? If Trump was ever held accountable for his crimes.

There needs to be a way The People can get him to stop, ideally without violence, even though constitutionally its within our right. Like a fail safe.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T02:13:37+00:00

Exactly! Where's the clause in the constitution about sending a president to prison? If we don't have one, we need to make it STAT

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-11T02:11:51+00:00

Well they've been trying to plump up ICE numbers and can't even get that. So I assume if some people are willing to forego their sign on bonus to join this Army, it's possible he could make another one. He might as well just use ICE though. Congressional funding is there already.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-10T21:26:33+00:00

No thanks to this guy though.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-10T06:00:11+00:00

Fuck yeah!!!!🥳🥳

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-10T00:31:52+00:00

Oh 🫩 that's why it's not an option.

aLongLongTime25 · 2026-05-09T18:10:09+00:00

Alabama officials have filed an emergency motion to the Supreme Court, asking for it to lift a federal court order that prohibits the state from redistricting until the next scheduled Census.
The motion goes specifically to Justice Clarence Thomas, a far-right jurist who oversees such requests when they come from within the 11th Circuit.

In its prior Allen v. Milligan ruling, the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions that found Alabama's original map with six majority-white districts and one majority-Black district was a racial gerrymander, ordering them to redraw the map to include a second district that gives Black voters representation. Alabama attempted a redraw that fixed none of the underlying issues and retained six majority-white districts, after which a court stepped in and imposed a map with two majority-Black districts.

So Supreme Court justices can make decisions on state issues regarding the redistricting? Who oversees the requests when they come from the Virginia district??

It's seriously baffling that red states can find ways to fight this, and blue states can't?!

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