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Ohio has gone "deep red" over the past two decades and, as a consequence, the Buckeye State is the target of an attempt by the hard left to use its dark money machine to gerrymander to permanently favor the blue jerseys. They are doing it via Ohio state ballot Issue 1.

Every serious person I have discussed this with in my home state hates the prospect of unelected bureaucrats with unlimited budgets gerrymandering the entire state to reach an amorphous goal of "proportionality" in representation. Citizens who genuinely believe in representative government will be voting "No" on Issue 1, even as they turn out to vote for Trump/Vance and for Bernie Moreno for the United States Senate and even if they are Harris/Walz/Sherrod Brown supporters.

Even the most partisan Democrat should recoil from this blatant power grab by the hard left and its dark money machine.

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If Issue 1 passes in Ohio on November 5, the hard left’s agenda will advance in the near term and the long. The terms "hard left" and "dark money machine" repeat often in this column because what ought to be a scandal is simply not covered in this most consequential of presidential elections. Pardon the repetition, but it is the "hard left" at work, and the money at its disposal is staggering in its totals and its origins are deeply cloaked behind many happy talk labels.

Hard left, dark money groups are trying to gerrymander the state. FILE: The Ohio Statehouse on December 18, 2023 (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post)

In the near term, if Issue 1 passes, it almost guarantees Democrats will gain eight or nine of Ohio’s 15 congressional seats. Republicans currently hold 10 of those 15 seats, after a bipartisan commission took almost two years to arrive at lines acceptable to Ohio’s Supreme Court.

The left didn’t like that result even though Ohio’s map of congressional districts is among the most reasonable to behold in the country. The left’s first run at tweaking the state constitution failed to thwart the people’s will, so it has produced and put before the voters a 26-page Jackson Pollock painting of a ballot measure that would install gerrymandering within gerrymandering, all bundled up as "citizens not politicians." The money pouring into Ohio to impose this Rube Goldberg machine on Buckeyes........

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