Better Boundaries launches initiative to create independent redistricting commission

SALT LAKE CITY — A initiative was filed Thursday that would create a bipartisan independent commission to recommend new legislative and congressional district boundaries to lawmakers during the once-a-decade redistricting process."With the way the process works in Utah today and has been working, so many people feel disenfranchised, that their vote doesn't count," said Ralph Becker, co-chairman of Better Boundaries and a former Democratic Salt Lake City mayor.The other co-chairman of the i