Francisco Kjolseth
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The Salt Lake Tribune, pool
On day two of the hearing over Utah’s redistricting, the Legislature put forward its own academic experts. They, predictably, presented the opposing view of what the plaintiff’s experts had to say the day before.
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Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune, poolThe 2018 citizen-approved anti-gerrymandering redistricting law is at the center of Utah’s current mid-decade map battle. -
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