House Majority Whip Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, and Rep. Jefferson Burton, R-Salem, presented their bills during a House Government Operations Standing Committee before a who’s-who of GOP leadership, conservative activists and election officials.
One Utah lawmaker wants the governor’s running mate out of the election oversight business, because of perceived conflicts of interest. But others say his bill is a “solution in search of a problem,” and that Utah’s elections are run well.
The Utah senator endorsed a bill making its way through the Utah Legislature that seeks to reform election security in the Beehive State
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. Utah’s 2024 ballot initiative debacle started benignly enough at the beginning of last year’s legislative session with the introduction of a bill on municipal and special district elections.
An anti-gerrymandering lawsuit contending the Utah Legislature acted unconstitutionally when it repealed and replaced a 2018 ballot initiative creating an independent redistricting commission is back in court.
Republican and Democratic legislators are looking to reform the primary election process put in place by SB54 10 years ago.
Election officials's mistakes in two southern Utah counties put the integrity of multiple 2024 elections at risk
A bill spelling out that the details of how voters return their mailed election ballots is private and making it a crime for public officials to access or use information not related to their duties is headed to the Utah House.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A new bill proposed in the Utah legislature would seek to make big changes to how voters return their mail-in ballots during the election. H.B. 300, otherwise known as Amendments to Election Law, would require voters returning a ...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. Utah’s 2024 ballot initiative debacle started benignly enough at the beginning of last year’s legislative session with the introduction of a bill on municipal and special district elections.
Popular sovereignty, a foundation of the American experiment, must be observed,” writes Lisa R. Halverson in an op-ed.
To Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, the question he wants to ask Utah voters is simple: “How easy do you want it to be to raise your taxes?” With SJR2, Fillmore wants to put a question on Utah’s 2026 ballot,