In Southern Utah, the “signature push” to revisit Utah’s redistricting rules isn’t just a Salt Lake City political story — it’s reshaping conversations here at home about representation, local power, and voter control. State leaders are collecting signatures to put 2018’s Proposition 4 back on the ballot. That ballot initiative, which created an independent redistricting commission to reduce gerrymandering and narrowly passed by voters, has been challenged in court and by the Legislature.
SIGNATURES NEEDED
As of mid-January, the Utah GOP has gathered nearly 47,000 signatures toward the roughly 141,000 needed by Feb. 15, aiming to give voters a chance again to weigh in on how legislative and congressional maps are drawn. A counter-effort has also sprung up, with some residents urging others not to sign or to remove their names if they have already been submitted…