Lt. Gov Deidre Henderson says there is a little more breathing room in the race to redraw Utah’s four congressional maps.

Lawyers for the lieutenant governor on Tuesday told Judge Dianna Gibson that the state and the county clerks could be prepared for next year’s midterm election as long as they have new maps by Nov. 10. Previously, her office had said Nov. 1 was the deadline to have congressional boundaries in place.

The nine extra days may not seem like much, but Gibson and attorneys for the Legislature and the plaintiffs who challenged the old maps — resulting in them being thrown out by the judge — have been trying to cram the process of drawing and having new maps approved by the court into less than 10 weeks from Gibson’s order last week.

The parties tentatively agreed last Frida

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