COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio lawmakers have missed their first deadline in the congressional redistricting process, meaning the Republican-controlled redistricting commission will now take over. This comes as one GOP leader raised the point that making a fair map wasn't a constitutional requirement.

Tensions are high as the U.S. congressional power divide rests in Ohio’s hands.

"I fear we are entering dark times, and the way this redistricting process is being conducted is leading us off a cliff into that darkness," Lawrence Austing, from Cincinnati, said.

The state’s mapmaking process has just hit its first deadline, one that wasn't met.

Community members from all over the state, such as Austing and Pari Sabety from Columbus, reprimanded the Joint Committee on Congressional Redistricting for

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