I do not like how this map splits up Salt Lake. Moreover, it looks as if it splits up my city, Murray.
Heather Knighton
This map does not follow the guidelines of Proposition 4 and is blatant gerrymandering. As a resident of Salt Lake County, I would not be properly represented. Not only do I have great concerns with someone trying to represent my family and neighbors, along with those in Moab, but I can't imagine how Utah County would be properly represented with this proposed map, either.
Jess Perrie
This map does not effectively represent Salt Lake County, and splitting it up is partisan
Roberta Anne Fletcher
This map does NOT provide full representation of the voters who live here and is blatantly not fair!
Marillyn L Larriva
Do not use this map. This map splits SLC and does not follow the standards of Proposition 4. Use the Escamilla-Owens-Map. This E-O map gives a Rep for the South, North and two Reps to cover the population centers.
Jaqueline Pack
This map is not in line with what the voters asked for and is blatant gerrymandering again. It is what our legislature wants because they are afraid of voters being able to vote fairly. This divides SL County from SL city, which is confusing. Stating that fairness combines urban with rural isn't actually fair because those communities have very different needs and interests.
Roxane Googin
Not only is this map impossible t decipher, it looks a lot from what I can see like the infamous "Map C" highlighted in the Utah GOP email that "preserves 'our' voices." It just shows that the legislature is not going to produce a truly representative map which is why we voted for the independent commission to begin with. This is all a waste of my taxpayer money and my personal time.
Amy Hale
This map splits and combines areas in strange ways and is an unfair partisan map.
Ali Griffin
This is such blatant gerrymandering. When we voted for new districts, it was for better representation. What me and my neighbors are facing in Salt Lake City isn't the same as Moab might be struggling with. Quit politicising the maps. PLEASE.
Andrew Grachek
Dividing SL county is entirely partisan, stop trying to divide it.
LYNDA A GEDDES
This map still separates Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County and it separates our community. Disagree better and draw a fair map.
Sarah Woolsey
Concern that this divides the urban SLC landscape in ways that are not productive for representation.
Austin Allen
This map does not provide equitable inclusion for elections, why should my representative have to cater to both a highly urbanized population and a rural population. What do we have in common aside from diluting our votes
Ryan Barlow
It doesn't make sense for Salt Lake City to be in the same legislative district as Moab and Blanding. I know this is because of the desire to include both urban and rural areas in each district, but this is just an excuse. The reason it makes more sense to have only urban or only rural districts is because urban and rural areas have different needs. Each representative is supposed to represent the people in their district, not the entire state. A representative of a rural only district would know much more about what his constituents need than a representative of a combined rural and urban district.
Ryan Barlow
It doesn't make sense for Salt Lake City to be in the same legislative district as Moab and Blanding. I know this is because of the desire to include both urban and rural areas in each district, but this is just an excuse. The reason it makes more sense to have only urban or only rural districts is because urban and rural areas have different needs. Each representative is supposed to represent the people in their district, not the entire state. A representative of a rural only district would know much more about what his constituents need than a representative of a combined rural and urban district.
Tammy Brice
It makes no sense to have this rural part of Eastern and Northern Utah grouped with Salt Lake County. They have such disparate needs and interests, they deserve to be grouped so that they can have someone represent them.
Alex Rasmussen
As a resident of West Jordan, I feel that this map would dilute my voice by splitting communities of interest.
Brittany Cole
This map splits Salt Lake County too much. This is not fair representation.
Rebecca Hall
I'm very very concerned about the blatant gerrymandering that almost every single one of these maps includes. You clearly don't care about actually representing us if you think you have to cut cities in half or thirds or even quarters to prevent fair representation
Elise Nielsen
Many of the urban cities are being connected with the rural. Farmington and Salt Lake should not be in the same district as a rural city like Huntsville or Vernon.
Kristine Gates
This map continues the gerrymandering and does not meet proposition 4.
Denee Tyler
Blatant gerrymandering. Listen to your constituents and do better.
Julie Norman
GOP has admitted that this map provides the least competition for elections. Its unconscionable that so many legislators would support a map that actively undermines the opinions of their own constituents. Stop rigging elections.
Malcolm Wilson
This map perpetuates the gerrymandering of the 2010 and 2020 redistricting maps. It is contrary to the goals of Proposition 4 and does not allow fair representation of the residents in the state who live in Salt Lake County, the largest county in the state.
Malcolm Wilson
This map perpetuates the gerrymandering of the 2010 and 2020 redistricting maps. It is contrary to the goals of Proposition 4 and does not allow air representation of the bulk of the residents in the state who live in Salt Lake County.
Martin Shupe
This map fails to keep Salt Lake County, the most populous county in our state with 34% of the entire state population as a single community of interest. This map goes against allowing a single group to choose its own representative. The power of the citizenry is diluted with any division of this county.
Scottie D
This does not at all comply with Prop 4. A map like this is exactly why the people of this state had to pass Prop 4. Which, by the way, both Democrats AND Republicans voted for -- we all want fair maps. This map is not that. It divides up communities of interest, so they will not have the representation they deserve.
Scottie D
This map is a clear violation of every inch of Prop 4. It is a strange, unnecessary (and illegal) splitting up of Salt Lake City. There's no reason to split the map like this -- except to illegally gerrymander. Please, for the love, do what the people asked you to do and give us fair maps. And then, if you want to win, go do your job and people will vote for you! Enough of the shenanigans.
Barbara DeRosa
This is not a fair way to split districts and is a glaring representation of the type of gerrymandering we're trying to get away from.
McKayden Morgan
The map does not solve the gerrymandering problem the current maps have. It splits more urban/suburban counties and neighborhoods to combined them with rural areas that have different interests, needs, and values.
John Reed
This map divides up neighborhoods and communities of interest, it also places together constituents of differing needs from their representation. Salt Lake City and its suburbs have far divergent needs from rural Utahns, and it leads to representation that has to choose which constituents to represent when those needs are not aligned and thus leads to underrepresentation for large parts of the population. This is an unfit map.
Juan Rogel
I do not understand splitting up the county like this. The valley has been split in an odd way. This map will not accurately represent the people in rural sectors and the urban sectors.
Hunter Keene
This map clearly violates all statutes of Prop 4. It is gerrymandered with severe and unnecessary splitting of Salt Lake City. It creates areas that are not connected by road or communities of interest, subdivides urban areas to incorporate massive swaths of rural areas - thus splitting interest - and faces prominent earmuffs formations.
Hunter Keene
This map clearly violates all statutes of Prop 4. It is gerrymandered with severe and unnecessary splitting of Salt Lake City. It creates areas that are not connected by road or communities of interest, subdivides urban areas to incorporate massive swaths of rural areas - thus splitting interest - and faces prominent earmuffs formations.
Lauren Miller
This map is gerrymandered. This map splits Salt Lake County into 4 different districts. This map is partisan and doesn't represent Utah voters. There are 4 steps to create fair maps, and this map includes 0 of the 4 steps. Step 1: Districts should have a regular shape, avoiding "shoestring" or "earmuff" formations designed to capture or exclude specific voters.
Step 2: All parts of a district must be geographically connected.
Step 3: Where possible, districts should respect pre-existing municipal, county, or other political boundaries.
Step 4: Districts should be drawn to keep communities with shared interests together.
Amy Pett
It's blatant gerrymandering. This does not fall in line with Prop 4 at all. It's like the committee isn't even trying. Why not just use the independent maps the committee the people voted for created before all this mess.
Chris Parkin
Rural and Urban Citizens deserve fair representation and this map doesn't do that.
Jake Dustin
You know, I've always said to myself that the needs of folks in Monticello are the same as the needs of folks in Sugarhouse.
This map is ridiculous.
Connor Duffy
This map is inconsistent with the intent of Prop 4. It divides the largest population center and merges it with rural areas, while also fragmenting counties and cities, which undermines fair representation.
Travis Schenck
When we lived in Grand County this type of map was very frustrating because it ended up lumping us in with Salt Lake County. No matter what we voted for it seemed like the whatever the SLC voted for won. It made our vote feel less important and it also meant our representative spent more time in Salt Lake County than visiting us and hearing our concerns. This does not represent rural counties and instead reinforces urban dominance.
Michael Gormley
I live in Salt Lake County, yet I am not included with around 80% voters of Salt Lake County? Nonsense map.
Kalyan Karki
I live in bluffdale. I belive my values are more align with Salt lake county then some one from Rush Valley. Please don't split county.
Zachary J Landers
This does not solve the existing problems of splitting geographic and similar communities in order to drive partisan goals by splitting groups of voters.
Michelle Greene
Does not follow the spirit of Prop 4. Too much gerrymandering
Adrienne Ainbinder
This map violates the intentions of Prop 4, overly divides SLC to dilute accurate representation and is not a viable option for Utah residents who seek fair elections and representation.
Dana Williamson
I dislike this option as Salt Lake is included with so much of rural UT. I am sure Park City people might prefer this but I don't think it is the right redistricting.
Crystal Hicks
This map splits up Salt Lake City and mixes together populations with very different needs and priorities. By dividing the city, it dilutes the influence of urban voters and combines them with suburban or rural areas that often have conflicting interests. Urban communities like Salt Lake City typically face issues related to public transportation, housing density, infrastructure, and social services, while rural or suburban areas may prioritize agriculture, land use, or lower-density development. When these distinct communities are forced into the same district, it becomes much harder for elected representatives to advocate effectively for either side. This kind of division undermines fair representation and weakens the political voice of Salt Lake City residents.
Daren Young
Not a viable map, does not meet requirements for Proposition 4
adrienne C Bean-Winter
nope
Jason Lyons
This map does not follow the requirements of Proposition 4. It divides Salt Lake County into multiple districts in a way that stretches across very different regions and communities, which weakens compactness and undermines community representation. The map creates unnecessary splits that fail to keep communities of interest intact.
Stephanie James
Do not like the splits in this map. It divides citites and counties and doesn't meet the requirements for fair maps.
Jamie Laulusa
The city and county splits on this map are unnecessary. This does not meet Prop 4 requirements.
Lynne Kraus
Too many county and city splits.
Craig Shane
Another unacceptable attempt to divide the urban vote.
Jessica DeAlba
This map does an incredibly poor job in the following areas:
Giving political balance, competitiveness for political candidates, and territory lines break up Salt Lake county 3 different ways and Utah County 2 ways. Each district's population is going to be concerned with very different things and no one will be properly represented under this map.
Hunter Fluckiger
Any map where Salt Lake County gets more than half of its population divided will result in another lawsuit. Salt Lake County is at the heart of this lawsuit and dividing it up even twice, and still taking the majority of its population is absurd
Nandini Vyas
I don't like how this divides Salt Lake County.
Jason Peacock
Yet ANOTHER gerrymandered map that purposefully dilutes the SLC voter base into a rural area. The ONLY map that achieves any level of fairness per Prop 4 is the Escamilla - Owens maps. All of the these other maps are complete waste of everyones time. Partisan symmetry IS gerrymandering.
ROBERT MARKHAM
This map splits up all of the urban areas. Not good.
Steve Boulay
Salt Lake City is a distinct population and should largely be left as a separate district. I make this statement as a 38 year resident and businessman.
Hayden H
This map dilutes the votes of Salt Lake City voters. We have very different needs from rural Utah. Still gerrymandering.
Joseph Boucher
This map dilutes the vote of Salt Lake City with that of two much more rural parts of Utah that do not share the same political interests. This is a bad map.
Amy Palmer
This map splits counties up. It's still gerrymandering
Bowen Weeks
I do not see how this map effectively follows the redistricting requirements. It splits the Salt Lake valley in half arbitrarily with no regard to contiguous communities and doesn't follow natural boundaries. This does nothing to attempt to group neighborhoods and similar communities together. Why are populated cities expected to share a representative with rural areas? They both have vastly differing priorities, requirements, and needs, and it does a disservice to everyone (urban and rural alike) to try to lump them together.
Matthew Gardner
What do I, who live in Millcreek, have in common with people who live in Roosevelt? This map makes no sense. The congressperson is going to get me complaining about homeless people and advocating for funding around that while people in Roosevelt are worried about crop subsidies, which I don't need or want.
Josh Paulsen
This UI is making it hard for me! I dislike this map.
This map seems like gerrymandering to me. And it makes it very difficult on representatives and citizens to break up the cities in SLC like this.
Josh Paulsen
This map seems like gerrymandering to me. And it makes it very difficult on representatives and citizens to break up the cities in SLC like this.
William Lentz
This map cuts up communities, including mine, in a non-logical and gerrymandered fashion. It does not give urban areas a united voice and true representation. My representative in district 2 could never represent my interests in Canyon Rim while also trying to represent most of eastern rural Utah. With this map I have neighbors both to the north and to the south of me that are placed into other districts, for no logical reason.
This map splits up communities in odd ways that should instead be grouped together to ensure proper representation of those areas of Utah. It seems to split up neighborhoods to the point that two neighbors could be in completely different districts. Also, the needs and concerns of the rural corners of Utah are going to be different than the more population dense urban centers and both need to be represented.
Paul Conlon
Little better than the current gerrymandered congressional districts. Definite lack of representation in Salt Lake County.
Paul Conlon
With this proposal, I will no longer be in the same congressional district as Washington county. Being from Salt Lake County, I really dislike the geographical distance. With this proposal I will get the same representation as my friends in the salt flats.
Rochelle Horrocks
I like this map, Salt Lake is only in two parts and my part of Sandy is with Tooele.
Christian Joseph Hansen
Enough cutting the city up. Salt Lake City citizens should have the dignity of voting together.
Pamela Foster
Puts SLC with rural communities with very different interests
Alan Sherwood
This map puts Salt Lake City in with rural areas. Looks gerrymandered to me.
Jamie Larson
This map divides communities and neighborhoods that have different issues and interests.
nathan musil
This map splits urban voters to delete their voice in governance.
Samuel A Stoops
Another blatant gerrymander. diluting the voices of urban utah into rural.
Nathaniel Hoecherl
splits salt lake and pairs it with communities and voters of different interests.
Daniel Herbert-Voss
This choice does better at not splitting up communities
Dominique Bellanger
We cannot keep urban and rural together. it is unfair to rural communities
kendall wilcox
this map clearly splits up slc in an unfair way
CATHY Campbell
SLC should remain intact.
Tricia Ferre
This map puts SLC with rural areas. I feel they have different concerns.
B Mcfarland
I like the idea of mixing districts with rural, suburban and city communities to make it more balanced. This map seems to do that.
Elizabeth Nakashima
This map splits Salt Lake County. Efforts should be made to ensure that communities that interact with each other (like those within Salt Lake County) are within the same district.
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