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The state will now avoid a lengthier fight over a mandated redraw of boundaries for the 15 members of Congress from Ohio.

The map the commission released tilts districts in Cincinnati and Toledo further right and Akron further left.

The Ohio Redistricting Commission has until the end of the day Friday to come up with such an agreement.

If a bipartisan congressional map isn’t adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission by Friday, state lawmakers could adopt a map without a single Democratic vote.

The Ohio Redistricting Commission operated its first meeting without an approved set of rules because there wasn't bipartisan support for them.

Ohio elected officials are now less than 10 days away from blowing a second deadline to pass a bipartisan Congressional map.

Ohio Democrats unveiled a map in September that was quickly rejected by the Republican supermajority, but the GOP has not yet publicly unveiled a map it will support.

Ohio Democrats produced a map in early September that would result in an 8R-7D split, which was dismissed by Republicans as "gerrymandered".

The seven member panel of lawmakers that make up the Ohio Redistricting Commission is facing an Oct. 31 deadline to come up with an agreement on a bipartisan congressional map.

But the Ohio Redistricting Commission might not have a Republican map to consider at its first meeting this month.