The Utah Republican Party announced a campaign on Tuesday to repeal the state’s redistricting law known as Proposition 4 and to eliminate a new congressional map approved by the Legislature last week.

State GOP chair Rob Axson filed two documents — an initiative application and a referendum petition — with the Lieutenant Governor’s Office on Tuesday evening. The party will have until mid November to gather the required signatures for each.

The documents were signed by six sponsors: Utah Attorney General Derek Brown, former U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, Republican National Committeeman Brad Bonham, Cody Stewart, Carolyn Phippen and Axson.

“There is a groundswell of concern here in Utah from Utahns who do not like to see our state moving towards a direct democracy,” Axson said. “We are a republic

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