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Utah GOP shifts strategy to overturn Proposition 4, filing for a direct initiative.

The initiative requires 140,000 signatures to reach voters, replacing the indirect approach proposed earlier this month.

Hearings continued in a lawsuit over newly enacted congressional maps approved earlier this month.

SALT LAKE CITY — The state Republican Party shifted tactics for repealing a 2018 ballot initiative on redistricting standards on Friday, after court challenges threatened to block an earlier application to overturn the law.

The Utah Republican Party started an effort to roll back Proposition 4 earlier this month by filing for an indirect initiative, which, if it cleared the signature threshold of about 70,000, could force the Legislature t

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