Amid legal challenges, talk of impeaching the Republican chief justice and primary chaos, the Ohio Redistricting Commission took the first steps toward drawing the fourth set of legislative maps. … Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost offered the line-drawing services of a bipartisan duo of mapmakers who successfully crafted Virginia's legislative maps. Yost retained GOP analyst Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics and Democrat Bernie Grofman, a [Distinguished] Professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, to draw Ohio's maps – if the commission chooses to use them.  

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