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 lawmakers endorsed a proposed bill criminalizing accessing or disclosing details of how and when specific voters cast their ballots. The bill comes after the Utah County clerk told the Deseret News he tracks how politicians return their ballots.
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
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.
Jill Koford has come out on top in the race for the District 10 Utah House seat, returning the Weber County seat to Republicans for the first time since 2018. Weber County commissioners on Tuesday canvassed results of the voting,
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.
Utah lawmakers are planning significant electoral reforms in the upcoming legislative session after a roller coaster ride during the 2024 election cycle.
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,
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
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.
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.