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Just as the second and final day of complicated map-drawing expert testimony came to an end late Friday, another twist cropped up in Utah’s court-ordered redistricting legal battle. An attorney for Utah’s top election official, the lieutenant governor, told Third District Judge Dianna Gibson that the bid for an indirect initiative to repeal Proposition 4 — the 2018 voter-approved law that calls for an independent redistricting process — had been withdrawn. “We are withdrawing this effort prior to initiating a direct initiative effort on the same issue,” Utah Republican Party ...