The Utah State Legislature has introduced bills that could potentially change voting in Utah.
After being in session, there has been over 10 pieces of new legislation introduced, which would affect mail-in ballots and voting access.
Tj Ellerbeck, executive director of the Rural Utah Project, said the bills would put “major limits on the way Utahns can vote, when Utanhs can vote and which Utahns can vote.”
“Having proposals like that come out could make other proposals that impose serious limits on voting access seem much less egregious and might make those proposals much more likely to pass,” Ellerbeck expressed.
Two of the bills are HS 92 and HS 214. HS 92 would require voters who want to vote by mail to sign up. HS 214 is a proposal mandating mail-in ballots arrive at the clerk’s office by election day.
“The worst of those is one bill that would eliminate voting by mail-in Utah, and Utah has been an all vote-by-mail state for the last eight years,” Ellerbeck explained. “Some parts of the state have been all vote-by-mail for 10 years, and over 90% of Utahns vote by mail.”
Ellerbeck encourages voters to see how their respective representatives voted on the proposals to better understand who is representing them.
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