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The stalemate over redrawing state legislative maps…in the face of a court-set deadline…is depriving voters of the rights to know their voting districts and interact with candidates ahead of elections…that’s what a group of Republican voters say…in a federal lawsuit, seeking to force the implementation of a new set of maps. In a separate complaint, three groups…who previously sued over the map-making process…asked the Ohio Supreme Court to force the Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting Commission to explain why it declared an impasse a day earlier. The federal lawsuit was filed one day after Republicans on the Redistricting Commission stopped work without a solution, saying they saw no path forward that would both comply with orders from the state Supreme Court and meet state Constitutional requirements. The lawsuit requested that a three-judge panel force the implementation of House and Senate maps approved Jan. 22. The Ohio Supreme Court rejected those maps earlier this month, saying they remained gerrymandered in favor of Republicans.