2006 saw another effort to enact redistricting reform, this one led by Republicans. During the debate over the Reform Ohio Now redistricting amendment in 2005, its leading Republican opponents — House Speaker Jon Husted and Representative Kevin DeWine — acknowledged that the current system of redistricting was flawed. While arguing that the Reform Ohio Now amendment was not the solution, they pledged to take up the issue of redistricting reform in 2006, if it were defeated. Speaker Husted and Representative DeWine kept their word, negotiating with various reform groups and some Democrats. Their proposal would have placed Ohio in a national leadership position, since it explicitly included competition as a criterion in choosing a redistricting plan, while balancing competitiveness with other criteria such as compactness. When the time came for a legislative vote to approve an amendment for the ballot, only one Democrat supported the proposal and it failed. While the reasons for this result are complex, it appears that Democrats did not trust the Republicans, did not want the Republicans to get credit for political reform, and — perhaps most importantly — believed that there was no need to change a system that might soon benefit them. The results of the 2006 election justified the Democrats’ political calculations as the party won a majority of the seats on the Reapportionment Board. However, it is the 2010 elections that will determine which party controls the redistricting process in 2011. The Democratic Party believes it will go into the 2010 election in an advantageous position since it presumably will have an incumbent Governor and an incumbent Secretary of State seeking re-election.