SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Exactly two weeks after the Utah Republican Party endorsed map C in Utah's court-stipulated redistricting process, the party has filed paperwork to run a referendum to repeal map C and an initiative to ask the legislature to repeal Proposition 4.

"It's the process that [the courts] wanted us to go by, we will go by their process, we will play the games that the state Supreme court and now our judiciary want us to engage in. We're up to the challenge, and the people of Utah will weigh in," said Republican Party Chair Rob Axson in an interview with ABC4.

If the party's referendum signature gathering is successful in collecting around 140,748 signatures by around November 17, then map C would not be allowed to take effect; instead, it would be sent to the voters for

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