A panel of Utah lawmakers have given an initial nod to a draft bill that would criminalize accessing and disclosing certain information about how or when individual voters return their ballots. The Government Operations Interim Committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to endorse the first iteration of the legislation,

Utah allows ballots received after Election Day to be counted as long as they're postmarked before the election Only ballots received before the polls close on Election Day would be valid under proposed legislation State lawmakers failed to endorse the proposal, but it may still be introduced at the 2025 Legislature

It was the closest of the 75 House races this cycle, and Koford's win preserves the 61-14 Republican-Democrat split in the 75-member body. Koford's flip of the District 10 seat was countered by Democrat Jake Fitisemanu's win in the District 30 race in Salt Lake County over Republican Fred Cox, which flipped that post from red to blue.

Utah lawmakers are planning significant electoral reforms in the upcoming legislative session after a roller coaster ride during the 2024 election cycle.

A lot of the spending in Utah elections for statewide seats comes before convention and before the primary, likely because those seats are often considered safe for Republicans. That money is spent on things like ads and gathering signatures to make it onto primary ballots.

Democrats are offering victory comments in two close Utah House races, while a Republican challenger has added to her lead in a third tight contest.

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.

A wave of independent candidates this year wanted to “make history” and maybe even “reshape the state’s political landscape” by winning several seats in Utah’s long Republican-dominated Legislature. Those were their hopes,

Utah voters delivered President-elect Donald Trump his highest vote share ever in the state on Election Day. Republican success extended down the ballot: statewide candidates glided to victory and the Legislature’s GOP supermajority maintained its same margin of dominance.

The claim might be debatable, but not the entertainer part. Over the past 20 years, Jason — delivering what he calls his “Utah family friendly version of a Las Vegas show” — has become one of Utah’s best-known home-grown local talents, with more than 50,000 followers on social media.

A first-time candidate for public office seemed headed to victory, when he was disqualified by the Wasatch County clerk more than a week after the election.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who was widely considered a top pick for AG, told the Deseret News in a statement that Trump’s Cabinet nominees represent the message Trump rode to a histori