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  • A Surge of Citizen Activism Amps Up the Fight Against Gerrymandering

    With new map-drawing tools at their disposal, U.S. residents are paying more attention to how congressional lines are drawn than ever, following the release of 2020 Census data.   On a recent Tuesday night, Khyla D. Craine, chair of Delta Sigma Theta’s redistricting committee, led more than 1,000 of her fellow sorority alumnae through how…

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  • Submit Your Community Interest Map Today

    All week long Utah’s first-ever Independent Redistricting Commissioners have been hard at work drawing draft maps. They’re drawing in teams of 2-3 and spending 6-10 hours a day! Share your input by submitting a ‘Community of Interest Map’ on our website. https://betterboundaries.org/draw-your-map/

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  • Opinion: Join the process to fairly redraw Utah’s political boundaries

    Utah needs a congressional redistricting plan that’s simple, fair and puts politics aside. Our current gerrymandered boundaries drawn in 2010 were designed expressly to maximize the prospects for one political party, meandering across city and county lines in highly irregular contours. In 2018, Utah voters approved Proposition 4, establishing the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission (UIRC).…

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  • Members of Utah’s Redistricting Commission Named

    Monday was the deadline for announcing the seven members of Utah’s independent redistricting commission. Utah Governor Spencer Cox started with the appointment of Rex Facer as chairman of the commission. In 2018, Utah voters passed Proposition 4 – which created a seven member commission to recommend redistricting plans to the state Legislature that will redivide…

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  • Utah’s House, Senate districts to be parsed again after 10 years

    SALT LAKE CiTY — The parsing of Utah’s House and Senate districts is set to occur again this year after a 10-year break but with a key difference from the process a decade ago. An Independent Redistricting Commission has been tabbed to take part in the process for the first time and craft proposed changes…

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  • Utah’s Independent Redistricting Commission

    SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 News) – In 2018, organizations like Better Boundaries pushed to get Proposition 4 on the ballot to allow the public a greater say in who represents them in government. The proposition passed and asked for the establishment of the Independent Redistricting Commission, which was named on Monday. Noah Rosenberg, the Executive…

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