A huge opportunity awaits Utah on Nov. 6 -- an opportunity to vote yes on Proposition 4 and slay one of the great plagues of American democracy, gerrymandering.
Every 10 years gerrymandering raises its ugly head and blights the fairness upon which our democracy is predicated. At that time, the state’s ruling political party, using United States Census data, redraws the state legislative and federal congressional districts to secure their political advantage.
In 2010, the pernicious effects of gerrymandering accelerated as big data and powerful mapping software allowed the ruling political party to draw district lines ever more precisely, thereby more fully entrenching their political advantage, and, in the words of U.