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TAYLORSVILLE — With a booklet of a dozen printed maps lying on a table nearby, Utah Independent Redistricting Commission Chairman Rex Facer said he felt confident with the work of the commission ...
“We are working towards showcasing all of the submitted maps that meet the criteria on redistricting.utah.gov, where everybody can see and comment on them,” said Howe. Proposals must meet ...
However, in 2020, the Utah Legislature repealed and ... and lawmakers would be forced to consider a set of maps created by the independent redistricting commission. “Our hope is the court ...
Utah’s first-ever Independent Redistricting Commission presented its final 12 maps to the Legislative Redistricting Committee on Monday afternoon after an intensive and somewhat controversial ...
Additionally, less than 20% of Utahns agreed with the Utah Legislature considering its own set of maps rather than the maps recommended by the Independent Redistricting Commission that was created ...
Sandall, Republican co-chair of the legislative redistricting committee ... and a handful of Utah voters — say that the gerrymandered map ignores a host of state constitutional provisions ...
Lawmakers overstepped their authority, the Utah Supreme Court ruled, when they rewrote a voter-appoved plan and instead drew their own maps that ... the once-a-decade redistricting process.
The lawsuit, brought against the Utah Legislature by the ... voters’ will when they passed the redistricting law and later ...
fair maps in Utah.” State lawmakers had argued the new maps ensured a better mix of urban and rural areas in all districts. They also said redistricting could not be subject to judicial review ...
As a result, New York’s redistricting commission created a new map, but the Democratic-controlled ... grafts it onto large swaths of the rest of Utah,” allowing Republican voters in rural ...