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GOP Effort To Repeal Prop 4 Appears To Fail To Make Ballot

GOP Effort To Repeal Prop 4 Appears To Fail To Make Ballot

(Cottonwood Heights, UT) — The GOP attempt to give voters a chance to repeal Proposition 4 appears to have failed. Several experts tell KSL that Senate District 15 in Cottonwood Heights appears to be about 250 signatures short. For months, Republicans have been trying to get voters to sign the […]

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Federal Judges Reject GOP Appeal Of Utah Congressional Map

Federal Judges Reject GOP Appeal Of Utah Congressional Map

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A three judge federal panel has rejected a Republican effort to overturn the congressional map that’s set to be used in this year’s elections. The judges from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued their decision yesterday. That comes a few days after the Utah […]

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Utah GOP Says It Surpassed Signature Goal To Repeal Proposition 4

Utah GOP Says It Surpassed Signature Goal To Repeal Proposition 4

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Republican Party Chairman Robert Axson says the party has collected more than 200-thousand signatures in an effort to repeal Proposition 4. The GOP needed about 141-thousand signatures, equal to eight-percent of eligible voters, in at least 26 of the state’s 29 Senate districts to […]

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Requests For Thousands Of Signatures To Be Removed From Petition

Requests For Thousands Of Signatures To Be Removed From Petition

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Thousands of Utah voters want their names removed from a petition that seeks to repeal Proposition 4. That’s the proposition that voters passed in 2018 to create an independent redistricting commission. The effort to repeal Prop 4 will only get on the ballot if organizers […]

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Utah GOP Needs Over 94K Signatures For Prop 4 Ballot Initiative

Utah GOP Needs Over 94K Signatures For Prop 4 Ballot Initiative

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Republicans are racing against the deadline to gather enough signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot. The GOP is trying to repeal the Proposition 4 Better Boundaries initiative passed in 2018 in order to allow the Legislature to decide congressional and legislative […]

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Judge Allowing Redistricting Suit To Move Forward

Judge Allowing Redistricting Suit To Move Forward

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A judge is allowing Utah Republicans to appeal her ruling on redistricting to the Utah Supreme Court. Judge Diana Gibson says GOP lawmakers missed a deadline to file their case, but she’s letting it advance to the high court anyway. That’s because the case will […]

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Utah Republicans Appeal New Redistricting Map

Utah Republicans Appeal New Redistricting Map

(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Republican lawmakers are appealing to the state Supreme Court to overturn a congressional redistricting map. The map was approved earlier this month by a third-district court judge. Senate President Stuart Adams called it the most gerrymandered map in the state’s history. A special legislative […]

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Judge Threatened After Redrawing Congressional Map

Judge Threatened After Redrawing Congressional Map

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A judge is facing threats after rejecting the Utah congressional map that was drawn by lawmakers in favor of a map that was drawn by voter organizations. The court did not specify what kind of threats were made, but indicated there have been threats of […]

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Utah GOP Seeks Referendum to Repeal Map C

Utah GOP Seeks Referendum to Repeal Map C

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Republican Party filed paperwork to run a referendum to repeal Map C in the state’s court-ordered redistricting process, two weeks after endorsing it. If the party collects roughly 141-thousand signatures by November 17th, Map C would be blocked from taking effect and instead […]

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Utah GOP picks Trump-backed mayor as nominee to replace Sen. Mitt Romney, but primary foes await

Utah GOP picks Trump-backed mayor as nominee to replace Sen. Mitt Romney, but primary foes await

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Republican Party has selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate, hours after the local official received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. While the endorsement on Saturday carries Staggs through convention with more than two-thirds of delegate […]

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