Utah GOP changes tactics in its attempts to repeal Prop 4, filing to launch a direct ballot initiative instead

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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Utah Republican Party is changing tactics in its attempts to repeal Proposition 4, the citizen led ballot initiative that banned partisan gerrymandering. Instead, they are filling to launch a ballot initiative so that Utah's citizens can vote on whether or not to repeal Prop 4.

Previously, the party filed paperwork to run a referendum to repeal map C and an indirect initiative to ask the legislature to repeal Prop 4.

In filing obtained by ABC4, the Utah Republican Party has filed to drop their indirect ballot initiative, and they are launching a direct ballot initiative to repeal Prop 4. If the initiative makes in on the ballot, the people of Utah will vote on the is