COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Republicans and Democrats sparred during the state's first congressional redistricting hearing, arguing that the other was the one truly gerrymandering.

"You have to draw the line somewhere," House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati) said during testimony.

Those are literal lines, the lines for Ohio's delegation of U.S. House representatives.

"When districts are gerrymandered, our voices are excluded in the process," said Reverend Dr. Aileen Maddox, a Dayton resident.

Ohio's mapmaking process has begun, with Maddox driving over an hour to testify at the first Joint Committee on Congressional Redistricting meeting on Monday.

"The whole idea... whether Democrat or Republican, that we have leadership that hears us, that feels accountable to us," Maddox sai

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