COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An effort to change how Ohio draws its congressional districts is moving forward on the long path to appearing on a statewide ballot.

Ohioans approved changes to the state's legislative redistricting process in 2015, and a group called Fair Congressional Districts for Ohio wants to do the same for congressional districts in 2018. They want to eliminate gerrymandering, or creating districts to advantage one political party over another.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Monday certified the group's petition summary as a "fair and truthful" summary of the proposed constitutional amendment. DeWine rejected the group's initial submission, citing two places where the summary language did not match the proposed Bipartisan Congressional Redistricting Reform Amendment.

The Ohio Ballot Board will decide within the next 10 days whether the proposal contains one or multiple amendments.

Then the petitioners will need to collect at least 305,591 signatures of registered Ohio voters -- meeting a minimum number in 44 of Ohio's 88 counties -- to qualify for the ballot.

Amendment backers have said they are shooting for the November 2018 ballot.

In 2015, Ohio voters approved Issue 1, which revised the process for drawing state legislative districts. The Bipartisan Congressional Redistricting Reform Amendment borrows much of its language from the state reform measure.

The amendment proposes the same seven-member commission of state lawmakers and elected officials that will draw Statehouse district maps do the same for congressional districts. A map would need the votes of two minority party members for approval.

Map-makers wouldn't be able to split a county more than once, and the overall proportion of Republican- and Democrat-leaning districts would have to reflect the party preferences of voters over the previous 10 years.

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