"We're so thankful to the Ohio justices for ruling in the people's favor. Voters deserve fair, representative, and inclusive legislative maps that include all of our voices. Black, brown, and Muslim Ohioans have always been left out of the discussion around redistricting, and therefore it's our voices that must be centered in the conversation because our communities suffer the impact of gerrymandering on a day-to-day basis. Now the process starts over again, and over the next 10 days we will make sure our voices are fully heard and represented during this new process. With this ruling in our favor, we are confident that Ohio will become a more equitable place for all of us." - Jeniece Brock, OCRC vice-chair and Policy and Advocacy Director of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative

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The Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission is a nonpartisan, multiracial commission whose mission is to model a thorough and robust engagement process, develop and demonstrate citizen-derived principles of redistricting, and draw unity maps based on community input and feedback to be submitted as testimony to the state’s official redistricting process. Learn more and view our unity maps at https://ohredistrict.org/.