Prop. 4 repeal update: Momentum up, path to ballot down

Utahns for Representative Government—the group behind the campaign to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law, Prop. 4—logged its best single-day signature total in a week on Wednesday. It’s still not enough. At the current pace, they’ll miss the statewide signature threshold for November’s ballot, and even a late sprint wouldn’t meet the geographic rules.

The campaign added 2,524 verified signatures Wednesday morning—a 52% jump over the prior day—along with modest improvement in a few lagging Senate districts.

They remain short of halfway to the statewide mark of 140,748, sitting at 43.78%. To get there, they need to average 2,931 new signatures every working day through March 7, the final verification deadline for county clerks.

Even then, they’d hit a wall: the ballot also requires signatures from 8% of voters in 26 of 29 Senate districts. At the current pace, they’d clear just 12—still 14 short. As of now, they’ve qualified in only one district.