March 26 (UPI) -- A petition effort to put a repeal of Utah's anti-gerrymandering law approved by voters eight years ago on the November ballot failed to meet state requirements, an updated tally indicated Thursday.
The Utah state Republican Party has spent months gathering signatures to put Proposition 4 to a vote this fall, and while organizers had enough signatures to qualify, they did not get enough of them from enough parts of the state.
In order to place an amendment on Utah's ballot, at least 8% of registered voters in the entire state must sign the petition and 8% of registered voters in at least 26 of the state's 29 Senate districts must sign the petition.
The group pushing for the new amendment, Utahns for Representative Government, initially surpassed the required 141,000 signatures statewide -- they'd collected 162,974 -- and met the 8% in 26 districts requirement, but an effort to remove signatures deemed inadmissable in Utah's District 15 nixed the effort, KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City reported.
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