An ongoing Utah review of 2.1 million voter registration records has found one noncitizen who registered to vote and zero examples of any noncitizens actually voting.
Utah's state elections office has released new, preliminary findings on how many non-U.S. citizens have registered to vote in Utah.
Cambria Cantrell with the lieutenant governor’s office, which oversees elections in Utah, praised the bill for allowing multiple ways to verify citizenship. She said an experience Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson had in the past illuminated why that’s important.
A new bill proposed at the Utah legislature would require people who want to vote in state elections to provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
Several of Utah's prominent lawmakers, including Senate President J. Stuart Adams, will see primary challenges this year. And 13 others will leave the Legislature altogether.
This after House Bill 209 passed through committee Wednesday. Is it the logical and sensible thing to do to ensure only US citizens vote in our elections, Or a waste of time and money that will only disenfranchise minority voters?
Amid ongoing tensions between the Utah Legislature and the state’s judiciary, a lawmaker wants to ask voters to give the Legislature the power to call a “special retention election” if legislators decide that a judge is “unfit or incompetent.
Judges should not be put in the position of raising funds and advertising.
SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4) — Two proposed bills at the Utah legislature would significantly change retention elections for Utah’s judges. Perhaps the most straightforward of the se is H.B. 262, a bill sponsored by Rep. Jason Kyle (R – Huntsville), which would raise the threshold for judges to be retained from a simple majority to 67%.