As he pushed for voters to pay for their own postage for mail-in ballots, the Utah County clerk reportedly checked whether state lawmakers placed stamps on their ballots. Now lawmakers are moving toward making such actions a crime.

Acting in an official capacity as the Board of Canvassers, members of the Utah County Commission certified the 2024 election results Tuesday at the county offices in Provo. But the turbulent election cycle — which saw County Commissioner Amelia Powers Gardner calling for County Clerk Aaron Davidson to rescue himself from overseeing the election and had

Sixty percent of the voters in some of Utah's smaller counties have cast their ballot. Voter turnout is somewhat less in larger counties.

After missteps by the Utah County Clerk’s office during the primary election — including a finding that more ballots were cast than the number of voters checked in — the lieutenant governor’s office says it will “continue to monitor compliance” there on Election Day.

Utah lawmakers declined to recommend a bill that would have prevented the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive after polls close on Election Day.