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The latest twist in the ongoing fight over redistricting and congressional maps came this week when third district judge Diana Gibson rejected a map drawn up by Utah lawmakers.

The judge chose a different one, a map that seems likely to give Democrats in the state a rare advantage.

And this all goes back to 2018 when Utahans approved Proposition 4. That's the ballot initiative that was supposed to make redistricting less partisan.

And Prop 4 included an independent commission to review the process and make recommendations.

But legislators argued drawing congressional maps is their job. It says so in the Constitution.

The initiative was supposed to guide them, not take away their final say.

So they drew up their own maps.

And all of this brings us to Victoria Reed, a woman who lives in Mill Creek, who just happened to be looking at those maps sometime in 2021.

And she noticed she could probably walk out of the door of her house and in no time at all walk through all four of Utah's congressional districts.

And that didn't make any sense to her.

If a congressional boundary is supposed to include communities of interest, that's the term that's in Proposition 4. A congressional boundary is supposed to keep communities of interest intact.

Well, these boundaries weren't doing that at all.

So she went on a walk.

And in about 45 minutes, she got through all the boundaries as they had been drawn.

And she found lines cutting straight through neighborhoods

along streets and property lines, dividing people who lived just a few houses apart. And what

this told her was the maps that had been drawn weren't keeping actual local communities together.

They were dividing them.

This week, Victoria and her husband Malcolm recreated her walk with our producers Benjamin Bombard and Tim Slover.

Okay, so lead the way.

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