Gov. Mike DeWine finally said what most of the rest of us have been thinking when he spoke in favor of changing the state’s process for redrawing district maps.

“The system we have today doesn’t work very well,” he told News 5 Cleveland earlier this week. “(It’s) no great revelation to anyone in this room who watched this unfold — it just didn’t work very well.”

DeWine, who sits on Ohio’s Redistricting Commission, said he is “in favor of making a change.”

An organization hoping to spur that change is Citizens Not Politicians spearheaded by former Republican state Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor. (The Ohio Redistricting Commission disregarded seven of her court’s ruling that lawmakers must stop their gerrymandering.)

“As a politician, I’m asking you to take power away from us and put it in citizens’ hands,” state Rep. Casey Weinstein, D-Hudson, has said, according to media reports.

On Wednesday afternoon, Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost rejected a petition summary of an initiative titled “An amendment to replace the current politician-run redistricting process with a citizen-led commission required to create fair state legislative and congressional districts through a more open and independent system,” saying the summary lacked clarity and accuracy.

Still, one must wonder whether Cuyahoga County Republican Party Chair Lisa Stickan understood her attempted defense of the current process or provided voters with good reason to rethink it.

“We have Republicans that won those positions (on the Redistricting Commission),” she said. “Had we had Democrats that won those positions, you’d have a different-looking commission.”

And, therefore, perhaps different maps.

While it is unclear when the redistricting process will begin again — because it must — O’Connor’s group is right to want to rethink how our maps are drawn, even if the pros and cons of the Citizens Not Politicians proposal are not yet fully understood.

” … Whether this is the right change or not, I don’t know because I haven’t really gone through it and studied it,” DeWine said Monday. And it’s true, the Citizens Not Politicians proposal and others must be studied thoroughly and considered carefully.

If it is not the right change, it must at the very least serve as a conversation-starter.