SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — In a hearing that lasted less than 15 minutes, the Legislative Redistricting Committee voted to approve Map C as Utah’s new congressional map and send it to the full legislature for a vote.

The vote fell along party lines, with Democrats saying that the new map could be headed for another legal challenge.

Senator Scott Sandall (R-Tremonton) thanked the thousands of commenters and legislative staff for helping make sure the process was handled in an efficient and non-partisan way and clarified that the maps could not be edited after they were posted because they were required by Proposition 4 to be posted publicly for 10 days.

Voters approved the anti-gerrymandering process known as Prop 4 in 2018, and a judge recently upheld that Utahns have a right to reform the

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