To prevent gerrymandering of Utah's Legislative districts, perhaps the process should eliminate legislators altogether by choosing registered voters to draw the boundaries.
The process could be similar to how jurors are chosen in Utah. Potential "jurors" are randomly chosen from Utah's registered voter lists. To be a "juror" on the redistricting committee, the potential jurors could not have any conflict of interest with any legislator, representative, Gov. Gary Herbert, etc. Once the juror pool is finalized, no legislator or representative could have any contact with these jurors. (Perhaps the jurors should be sequestered to prevent any hanky-panky from happening.)
It would be a "win-win" situation: the redistricting process would be fair and no legislators could influence the process to benefit themselves.
Teri Harrison
Salt Lake City
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Perhaps we should just stick with the Constitution, both the Federal Constitution and the State Constitution.
Here's a quote from Michael E. Christensen, Director, Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel:
"The More..
That would be fine if we could trust the legislators. After all the shenanigans in the last session I feel that is unfortunately no longer the case.
Good ideas are not welcome in Utah, Teri, and anything, ANYTHING that might remove power from the hands of the oligarchs is worthy of getting you burned at the stake.