Utah Initiative to Prevent Mail-In Voting Fails Due to Lack of Signatures
The Secure Vote Utah group organizers aiming to curb mail-in voting in the state failed to turn in the required amount of signatures to get the proposal on November's ballot.
The group stated its goal is "to restore the rules and framework that established free and fair elections" by limiting mail-in voting and requiring citizens to present photo identification at the polls. Secure Vote Utah's deadline was Tuesday and it turned in roughly 5,700 of the 138,000 signatures required.
"We just did not have enough signature-gathering time to put the Secure the Vote Act on the ballot for 2022," group organizers said in a statement. "Nonetheless, our all-volunteer, grassroots effort succeeded in getting nearly a thousand in-person signatures a day, a pace that would have yielded a quarter million signatures in the normal time an initiative has to get on the ballot."
Organizers claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic made it more difficult for them to gather enough signatures, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
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