Republican battle to repeal Utah redistricting law races to finish line

Utahns for Representative Government, the committee organized by Utah GOP chair Rob Axson, has until 5 p.m. on Sunday to submit enough petition packets to qualify for the November ballot.

This comes after the Utah Supreme Court on Friday denied a request to postpone the signature submission deadline for the Republican effort to repeal Utah’s Proposition 4 redistricting law.

As the clock ticks down, GOP volunteers and paid signature gatherers worked to persuade Utahns to give Prop 4 a second look even as Better Boundaries — the group behind the law — asked Utah voters to remove their signatures from petitions.

Over the past three months, the GOP’s bid to fight one ballot initiative with another has boiled over into a bitter brawl about who should draw Utah’s congressional maps and how citizen-initiated legislation should be implemented.





https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/02/13/utah-redistricting-battle-continues-as-republicans-race-to-repeal-prop-4/