Utah: Citizens petition for fair congressional boundaries
A group of Washington County residents, accusing the Utah Legislature of gerrymandering Utah’s congressional and legislative districts, are meeting this afternoon in an effort to get an independent commission to redraw district boundaries after the 2010 census. The Fair Boundaries Initiative needs 95,000 signatures by April 15 to get on the ballot in November, and 6,500 of those need to come from Washington County. So far petitioners have gathered more than 1,300 signatures locally, and about 13 percent of the total needed statewide.