Issue 1 is founded in the concept of proportionality, That's just another term for gerrymandering. Issue 1’s percentagebased proportionality equals fixed outcomes, removes competition, and undermines the longheld standard of one personone vote. And it comes at the expense of Ohio's minority communities, specifically the Black community. It disenfranchises the voice of the Black voter. Senator Michele Reynolds held a bipartisan news conference featuring former Representative John Barnes and the Former Chair of Michigan's Citizens Redistricting panel, to expose the danger Issue 1 represents to the Black community.