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The new legislative and congressional districts scheduled for the 2022 elections would be drawn by a multi-partisan commission rather than the Legislature under an initiative petition submitted to the Oklahoma secretary of state on Monday.

Supporters will have 90 days to collect 177,958 valid signatures once all challenges to the petition have been resolved. They hope to have it on a statewide ballot in the 2020 general election.

The initiative petition involves a series of constitutional amendments that would create a nine-member commission evenly divided among members of the two largest parties — currently Republican and Democrat — and all others. Two members of each of the three groups — a total of six — are to be selected at random from applicant pools screened by a panel of retired appellate court judges. Those six would choose the remaining three members.

Public input would be taken before any redistricting maps are finalized.