SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The second and final hearing of the Utah legislative redistricting committee's court-ordered process to draw new congressional lines got somewhat contentious on Wednesday as Republicans and Democrats sparred over how to test partisan fairness and accused each other's redistricting expert of bias.

After a three-hour meeting on Wednesday and a five-hour one on Monday, no maps were voted on, and neither was a bill to introduce a partisan bias test to their court-ordered anti-gerrymandering redistricting criteria known as Proposition 4.

The Republican House chair, Candice Pierucci (R-Salt Lake County) said that the maps will be voted on October 6th, just hours before a full legislative vote during a planned special legislative session.

"We’re giving the public multip

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