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# Prop. 4 repeal bid continues to stumble
- URL: https://utahpolitics.news/prop-4-repeal-bid-continues-to-stumble/
- Published: 2026-01-16T19:14:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-22T15:25:14.000Z
- Author: Bryan Schott
- Tags: Elections, Legislature, Redistricting

The bid to repeal Utah’s voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law (Prop. 4) is sputtering: with less than a month until the Feb. 14 deadline, signature verification is falling further behind.

As of Friday morning, [Utahns for Representative Government](https://www.ufrg.org/?ref=utahpolitics.news) (UFRG), the political-issue committee backing the ballot initiative, has collected just over a third of the 140,748 signatures needed statewide to qualify for the 2026 ballot.

Backers also must collect signatures from 8% of voters in 26 of Utah’s 29 state Senate districts. They haven’t cleared that bar in a single district, and only six are even above 50% of the requirement:

- SD27 - 84.2%
- SD25 - 64.35%
- SD26 - 61.22%
- SD29 - 60%
- SD28 - 55.23%
- SD2 - 52.24%

In ten other districts, they’re below 20% of the goal, with most of those in Salt Lake and Davis Counties. The furthest behind is SD7, represented by Senate President Stuart Adams.

[As of Thursday](https://utahpolitics.news/prop-4-repeal-push-scrambling-for-signatures/), organizers needed at least 3,175 signatures per day to stay on pace; Friday’s shortfall of 1,970 bumps the daily target to 3,243 just to reach the minimum statewide threshold.

The Utah Republican Party and UFRG are bringing in [conservative activist Scott Pressler](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/scott-presler-conspiracy-theories-lara-trump-rnc-job-rcna144144?ref=utahpolitics.news) for a trio of events this weekend to juice signatures. 

Pressler, who has a massive social media following, is best known for GOP voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. He has faced criticism over [ties to anti-Muslim groups](https://web.archive.org/web/20230407175429/https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/updated-rep-elise-stefanik-partnering-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-scott), election denialism and [for amplifying debunked conspiracy theories](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/scott-presler-conspiracy-theories-lara-trump-rnc-job-rcna144144?ref=utahpolitics.news), including QAnon.