From the Deseret News:
The Utah Supreme Court Friday quashed a legal challenge to the $1 million price tag affixed to an independent redistricting commission effort one group hopes to put on the ballot in 2010.Fair Boundaries, a group formed to convince Utah voters there should be an 11-member independent panel to redraw voting districts after the next federal census, claimed the price attached to the effort by a state fiscal office was intentionally exorbitant.
“The cost estimate is outrageously high … it comes from the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget who get their information from legislative research,” said Merrill Nelson, a former state legislator acting as a spokesperson for Fair Boundaries. “They get their marching orders from legislative leaders …This is a tactic to undermine our effort.”