Even with a special election just around the corner, Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman is looking ahead to lawmakers’ return to work on redistricting for Statehouse maps.

Huffman told the Ohio Capital Journal he thought that might happen in September.

Ohio’s Supreme Court declared both the U.S. Congressional district and Statehouse maps drawn in 2022 to be unconstitutional, and the Ohio Redistricting Commission threw up its hands and refused to do its job. Buckeye State residents deserve better than that — from lawmakers and from all members of the commission.

Now, it’s time to get them back to work.

“The plan in my head … is that we would start in earnest after June 30, have hearings and all of the other negotiations and things that are to be done and to try to have a map by mid-September,” Huffman told the Capital Journal.

But regarding the Statehouse maps, it will be up to Gov. Mike DeWine to call the Ohio Redistricting Commission back to work. That should be a top priority for the governor and for members of the group.

Some leaders in Ohio have called for anti-gerrymandering reform.

Without any action on that front, Buckeye State residents are left to depend upon lawmakers and those on the Redistricting Commission to do their jobs properly.

It’s past time for the commission to show its work is being done to better Ohio.