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Three takeaways from the Utah Legislature's first redistricting hearing.
['Benjamin Wood', 'Jill Tuft', 'Grace X. Maya', 'Bryan Young', 'Josi Hinds']
Salt Lake City Weekly
Until then, here's the top three takeaways from Monday's exercise and what it means for the now-seven-year-long fight for fair maps.
The Legislature has long had a habit of "cracking" Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County in order to dilute the franchise of left-leaning voters.
Salt Lake County is too populous to be fully contained within a single congressional district.
The remaining two designs include "doughnut hole" districts centered in Salt Lake County.
What this appears designed to do is provide a justification for Republican lawmakers to refuse to draw a district within Salt Lake County, in the guise of "fighting" gerrymandering.
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