More groups are jumping on the redistricting reform bandwagon, in advance of a vote this fall on a plan to create a bipartisan commission to draw state lawmakers' districts. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports.
Supporters of the redistricting plan now include the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, which says it's an "accountable approach" for "effective reform and fair districts".
And the liberal group Nuns on the Bus says it's joined up too. Sister Carren Herring in Cincinnati says too many people on the margins are disenfranchised by a gerrymandered map that favors people with power and influence.
"All people need to be feel that their vote counts. And this Issue 1 isn't perfect, but it's better than what we have."
The Ohio State Bar Association had opposing a redistricting plan in 2012 that would have required judges to select members of a map-drawing commission, but is backing this one since judges would play no role.