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As Utah's independent redistricting commission continues to gather feedback regarding the state's new voting maps for the next decade, its leadership spent the majority of Tuesday's 2½-hour ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Legislature is beginning the tricky process of redistricting. At a news conference Wednesday, the co-chairs of the legislature's redistricting commission said ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The voter-created commission tasked with drawing political boundaries for congress, legislature and state school board finally presented its maps to the Utah State Legislature.
Utah Senate floor is shown Wednesday ... They also noted that the state constitution gives them the power to draw voting maps, and said they are better suited to the task as elected officials ...
Utah State Legislature_Complaint_Final 3.17.22 ... “Elections should be determined by voters, not by politicians who draw maps to serve their own political interests,” said Paul Smith, senior ...
In 2011, a map drawn by a Utah resident was used to set the state’s school board boundaries. Lawmakers need all the help they can get, he said: “It’s not as easy as you think. “Drawing a ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments ... Last month, it decided that lawmakers were bound by state constitutional restraints in drawing maps and said the state Supreme ...
An anti-gerrymandering group is warning that Utah ... former state representative and executive director of Better Boundaries, said lawmakers are thinking of stripping out a ban on drawing ...
By Michael Wines Utah’s Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical on Tuesday of arguments put forward by the State Legislature that it had essentially unreviewable power to draw a map of the ...
By Michael Wines Utah’s State Legislature most likely violated ... which set up an independent commission to draw political maps and explicitly forbade partisan gerrymandering, was a legitimate ...