Utah’s GOP Say They Have Enough Support to Qualify Redistricting Ballot Initiative

The measure would scrap an independent panel and let legislators draw congressional maps. Utah’s Democratic Party launched an effort to remove signatures.
Utah’s GOP Say They Have Enough Support to Qualify Redistricting Ballot Initiative
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021. Bill Clark/AFP via Getty Images
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Utah Republicans announced that they have collected enough signatures to qualify an initiative for the November ballot to ask voters whether to repeal the state’s independent redistricting committee and return redistricting decisions to state legislators.

Utah Republican National Committee member Brad Bonham posted a video on X of the group dropping off boxes, stacks, and bins of signatures at a county clerk’s office in Salt Lake County on the deadline day of Feb. 15.
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