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.

Reporting more than 731,000 signatures submitted to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office, Citizens Not Politicians said it cleared a massive hurdle in their plan to reform the state’s redistricting process by replacing politicians with a citizen commission.

The group reported it would submit 731,306 petition signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State's office to make the November ballot.

Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. At a Statehouse rally Monday, the redistricting reform amendment campaign, Citizens Not Politicians,

Ohio may vote on a new redistricting model replacing politicians with a citizen panel. Backers will submit over 730,000 signatures Monday to get it on the November ballot.

Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system have delivered hundreds of thousands of signatures needed to make the statewide ballot this fall

The number is larger than the amount of signatures submitted last year by a citizen's group that successfully placed an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot.

A constitutional amendment to prevent political redistricting is likely to appear on the Ohio ballot in November.

A constitutional amendment to prevent political redistricting is likely to appear on the Ohio ballot in November. The Citizens Not Politicians campaign delivered 731,306 signatures collected from all 88 Ohio counties to the Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office for a constitutional amendment to establish an independent