Citizen-Initiated Amendments

Nevada

Initiative: C-03-2023 and C-04-2023. RULED DEFICIENT.

Proponents: Fair Maps Nevada

Signatures Required: 102,362

Collection Deadline: June 26, 2024

Status: Ruled deficient because it would create a new state body but failed to define how it would be funded.

Summary: Proponents sought to amend the Nevada constitution to require redistricting commissions be used to create Nevada's legislative and congressional districts.

Ohio,

Initiative: Issue 1. DEFEATED

Result: Yes: 46.3%, No: 53.7%

Proponents: Citizens Not Politicians.

Signatures Required: 413,488

Collection Deadline: July 3, 2024

Signatures Submitted: 535,005

Summary: Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O'Connor spearheaded an effort, predominantly funded and supported by Democrat donors and liberal groups, to overhaul Ohio's redistricting process for a second time in less than a decade and create a citizen's redistricting commission. The commission would have been required to gerrymander election districts in a way that would favor Democrats in order to create maps that yielded more Democrat seats than would be possible if traditional redistricting criteria were followed. Citizens Not Politicians brought a lawsuit to try to invalidate language to that effect from the ballot, but the Ohio Supreme Court permitted the language to be used since the measure did require gerrymandering. Proponents raised more than $43 million in support of their effort while opponents raised and spent only $7.5 million.

Oregon

Initiative: Initiative Petition 13. NOT ON THE BALLOT

Proponents: People Not Politicians Oregon

Signatures Required: 156,231

Collection Deadline: July 5, 2024

Status: Failed to submit adequate signatures.

Summary: This citizen initiative would give responsibility for legislative and congressional redistricting to a 12-member redistricting commission. The state legislature would no longer have the authority to draw legislative and congressional maps. A panel of 3 administrative law judges would be appointed to review the applications and the Secretary of State would select the first 6 commissioners by lot, 2 affiliated with the largest political party in the sate, 2 affiliated with the second largest political party in the state, and 2 unaffiliated as described by the measure. The 6 randomly-selected commissioners would then choose the final 6 commissioners by March 15, 2023, and thereafter August 15 in each year ending in the number zero.