SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) —The battle over whether Utah's new court-stipulated Congressional lines will be fair is heating up once again, as a Republican lawmaker is expanding a proposal on how to test the maps for partisan symmetry, or whether both Republicans and Democrats are represented fairly.

But Better Boundaries, the group that created Utah's citizen-led anti-gerrymandering criteria, known as Proposition 4, argues that lawmakers aren't required to put these tests into law and that they're trying to "trick voters."

"What the 'trick' is isn't necessarily what the bill is, but it's how they're messaging on it, saying that the court is requiring them to codify something into law, which they didn't do," said Better Boundaries' Executive Director, Elizabeth Rasmussen. "They said that you c

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