Children learning to garden with their mothers during a “Kids Farm Day” event earlier this month in Aberlin Springs, an “agri-community” in southwest Ohio.

Claire Wagner, left, a volunteer for Citizens Not Politicians, collected more than 20 signatures on petitions for the redistricting amendment at the Rhinegeist Brewery near downtown Cincinnati.

Gov. Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio, had called a special legislative session to fix what is typically a minor procedural issue.

Ohio has become a key front in the fight over access to abortion as voters are set to decide on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.

Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, held a news conference last month to announce the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump and others.