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,
Election officials who access and disclose information about how specific Utah voters cast their ballots would face criminal charges under a draft bill backed by a panel of Utah lawmakers.
Weeks after his write-in campaign for governor fell short, state representative Phil Lyman made it clear he won’t be going anywhere. Lyman told his supporters in a forum at a crowded Chubby’s Cafe in Orem on Friday night that he intends on running for governor again in 2028,
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.
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
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
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,
Utah's Democratic party named leaders for both the House and Senate, the Senate Dems named its leadership Friday, Nov. 8, shortly after the Nov. 5 election, and the House Dems named its leaders on Tuesday,
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,
Lindsay Lohan appeared on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” as part of her press tour for the upcoming Netflix holiday movie “Our Little Secret” and earned big applause when she revealed how she playfully fired back at the CEO of Disney while attending the world premiere of “The Parent Trap” in 1998. Lohan was just …