Are voters choosing their politicians or are politicians choosing their voters? In one week, Utah voters have the opportunity to weigh in on this question. In this episode we’re talking about something called gerrymandering: when politicians rig the system by choosing their own boundaries for re-election. We talk to Blake Moore, a co-chair of the coalition called Better Boundaries, which is advocating for the ballot initiative to have an independent committee draw the borders for congressional and legislative districts, rather than the politicians themselves doing it. We also talk to Utah State Senate Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund, who wrote the official opposition to this ballot initiative known as proposition 4.
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