Issue 1, the amendment aiming to end gerrymandering that could drastically change the makeup of the Ohio Statehouse, is on the ballot this election.
I tried to simplify what it would really do with a game. Tell me — what do these look like?
PICTURE 1 – guessing game on issue 1 WEWS
PICTURE 2 – guessing game on issue 1 WEWS
PICTURE 3 – guessing game on issue 1 WEWS
We spoke with dozens of viewers and readers over the past few weeks — stopping them at random and showing them the cutouts. I showed cutouts of Senate Districts 18, 27 and 28.
“Oh it looks like an animal to me,” Lois Osborne, a Lake County voter, responded.
“I have not a clue,” Ron Robertson from Painesville said. “A school parking lot?”
“Half a gun,” voter Marcelo Marques added.
Some of the most popular answers are shown in our video — different animals, guns, staircases, a device to smoke marijuana and a toilet.
“Well, all of these are actually districts in Ohio,” I told each interviewee.
The responses? Mainly bewilderment, frustration and some anger.