On November 30, some Ohio voting rights groups and voters filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court to overturn the new U.S. House district boundaries. League of Women Voters v DeWine. Here is the Complaint.

In 2018 the voters of Ohio amended the state constitution to say the legislature “shall not pass a plan that unduly favors or disfavors a political party or its incumbents.” But the new districts make it likely that Republicans will win 3/4ths of the seats.

The Institute for Political Innovation has launched an initiative for a top-four system in Missouri. See this story. Like the other initiatives, this one makes it far more difficult for a party to attain or keep qualified status. By eliminating party nominees for all office except president, the initiative changes the definition of “party” from a group that got 2% for any statewide race, to one that got 2% for president. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.

Similar initiatives, abolishing party nominees, injured the ability of parties to be ballot-qualified in Washington and Alaska, and the Institute’s Nevada initiative has the same flaw. The only reason the top-two initiative in California did not have a similar flaw is that the California legislature passed a bill, letting the primary vote count toward qualified status, and also easing the number of registered voters for qualified status.