With a yearslong court battle over partisan gerrymandering in Utah nearing its potential finale, opposing sides are attacking the congressional maps the other submitted to the court, calling the other’s proposed congression districts an attempt to rig the system and gain political advantage.

In a court filing late Friday night, lawyers and experts for the plaintiffs in the original anti-gerrymandering lawsuit — the League of Women Voters, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and a handful of Utah residents — said it would have been almost impossible for the Utah Legislature to come up with the new boundaries it did unless lawmakers improperly used election data in an unlawful attempt to deny Democratic voters a shot at winning a seat in Congress.

According to one of the plaintiffs’ expert

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