Overview
- Utahns for Representative Government delivered final petition packets on Feb. 15 and says it submitted more than 200,000 signatures to repeal the 2018 anti-gerrymandering law.
- To qualify for the November ballot, the petition needs 140,748 valid signatures statewide and must hit the 8% threshold in 26 of 29 state senate districts.
- As of Friday, officials had validated roughly 89,000 signatures, with district-level targets still pending review during the verification period.
- The Utah Supreme Court denied the campaign’s emergency request to extend the submission deadline, keeping Sunday as the final turn-in date.
- Opponents are urging signers to rescind their support, with Salt Lake County reporting about 1,300 removal requests, and any repeal would not change 2026 maps but could restore legislative control of future redistricting.