State lawmakers will miss their first deadline for Congressional redistricting, meaning the Ohio Redistricting Commission must reconvene, facing an Oct. 31 deadline.

For the second time this year, the state’s Joint Redistricting Committee met Tuesday morning, for almost three hours of testimony by legislators and citizens. Most of it centered on a map drawn by Democrats with virtually no chance of going to a floor vote, signaling the legislature is far away from any consensus on district boundaries.

“We asked time and time again, where are your maps, show us your maps,” Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) told reporters after committee.

Republicans, who hold supermajorities in the Ohio House and Senate, have not brought forward their own map.

“There’s not a map that I kn

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