Should county clerks be able to peek at ballots like the Utah County clerk did?
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.
Should ballots received after Election Day be counted in Utah?
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
Lawmakers vote down bill to prevent counting of mailed ballots that arrive after 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.
Utah County: Long voter lines, ballot ink shortages and a ‘little bit of a problem with planning,’ Lt. Gov says
Poll staffers rushed to print and drive around thousands of emergency ballots. And some voters waited up to three hours in lines so long they wrapped both inside and outside of buildings. Election Day in Utah’s second-largest county was a disorderly and ...
Utah County certifies election results; Commissioner Powers Gardner criticizes county clerk
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
No ‘looky-loo’: After county clerk tracked voting methods, Utah lawmakers aim to make it illegal
Disclosing how specific Utahns cast their ballots would be criminalized under a draft bill backed by an interim legislative ...
Utah Tech faculty take rare no-confidence vote against school leaders over handling of allegations against ex-president
The Faculty Senate at Utah Tech University passed a rare no-confidence resolution against the school’s senior leaders over ...
Utah lawmakers endorse bill to criminalize disclosing individual voter info amid clerk controversy
A panel of Utah lawmakers have given an initial nod to a draft bill that would criminalize accessing and disclosing certain ...
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Proposed bill would prevent people from tracking the method voters use to vote
A proposed Utah bill would prevent people from looking into what method someone used to cast their ballot when putting in ...
The future of Utah elections
Utah’s primary process and vote-by-mail system came under fire from losing campaigns in 2024 who criticized the privacy of ...
Opinion: Don’t ‘fix’ a Utah election system that isn’t broken
The nation’s election system, which is governed separately by 50 states and administered by 3,244 separate counties, has been ...
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Utah ballot bill addressing postmark deadlines fails to advance
A ballot bill that would have revamped postmark deadlines for Utah ballots won't make it to the legislature in January after all.