The group that sponsored a citizen ballot initiative creating an independent redistricting commission is exploring litigation and forcing some lawmakers into a primary over the maps the legislature ultimately approved.
"There are two primary strategies Better Boundaries is following after the adopting of really egregious gerrymandered maps," Katie Wright, the executive director of Better Boundaries, said in an interview Monday with FOX 13.
"If those parties come back and say there’s a path, an achievable path, we will pursue it," Wright said, later adding:"Anything we do must have a serious shot. We are not Pollyanna-ish and think there’s just an easy win here. That’s not the reality." Lawmakers ultimately chose to ignore the independent commission's maps, arguing that the legislature has the constitutional authority to decide political boundaries. Despite protests and calls for lawmakers to adopt the independent commission's maps, the legislature approved its own and Governor Spencer Cox signed them. The biggests outcry came over the congressional district map, which splits Salt Lake County among the four districts.
"That was always the danger that the legislature ran when this process was set up in the first place," the governor told reporters earlier this month."I suspect that we’ll see pushes to change that again for the next 10 years."
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