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At a Statehouse rally Monday, the redistricting reform amendment campaign, Citizens Not Politicians, had reason to celebrate, announcing it had submitted more than 731,000 signatures to qualify the amendment for the November ballot. The campaign needs 413,487 valid signatures from at least 44 counties to succeed.

Fed up with politicians manipulating maps to ensure reelection, a crowd of Ohio voters took a key step toward offering a redistricting alternative on the November ballot. That alternative would replace Ohio's current system for drawing congressional and legislative maps, which relies on elected officials, with a 15-member panel of Ohioans without close ties to politics. The campaign, called Citizens Not Politicians, delivered more than 731,000 signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State's office Monday morning to make the fall ballot.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio is one step closer to having a high-stakes redistricting reform amendment on the November ballot, after backers submitted hundreds of thousands of voter signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office on Monday.

The Citizens Not Politicians campaign says it turned in 731,306 voter signatures, after the group spent the past seven months circulating petitions around the state. Of those signatures, at least 413,487 must be valid, including a baseline in 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties, for the measure to appear on the November ballot.