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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Elections in Utah have been under attack and the state and county clerks have bene fighting back with an information campaign showing how elections are safe and secure ...
Utah uses direct-record electronic and optical scan voting machines — both considered secure voting systems by the United States Election Assistance Commission — and requires each machine and ...
Election officials from around Utah said Monday they are confident that elections here next month will be secure, safe and fraud-free. But they’re not so confident about the rest of the nation.
Half of those 8,000 election workers would be needed to count ballots, with Secure Vote Utah proposing the counting be done in an open room accessible to the public, according to Moore.
The “Secure the Vote” initiative needed 137,929 verified signatures from Utah voters. As of Wednesday morning, Utah elections officials had verified just 5,782.
This image shows cases of election crimes in Utah 2012-2022. (Photo: KSL-TV) The most common situation involved forging signatures on referendum or initiative packets.
Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson and businessman Jason Walton are also running in the primary. Wilson only raised $27,000 in the last quarter, while Walton raised $36,000.
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said Tuesday the state’s new vote-by-mail process is “a huge step” toward better election security despite the major changes made from the original proposal ...
"We are well informed and are in a really good place to make sure we continue to have secure and successful elections," said Lannie Chapman, chief deputy clerk with Salt Lake County. Utah has used ...
Only 40% of Republicans are very or somewhat confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections — down from a peak of nearly 90% in 2006. Meanwhile 80% of Democrats and 67% of independent voters say ...