A federal judge has ordered Utah’s voter signature threshold lowered for Jan Garbett because of time lost due to the pandemic. According to State Elections Director Justin Lee, the judge also extended the deadline for certifying the primary ballot from…
Month: April 2020
Key Points: The Republican Party does not control its membership. Democrats are being strongly encouraged to vote in the Republican primary election. If Democrats re-register as Republicans before May 12, 2020 and make their records private, the Republican Party will…
In order to assist incumbents who supported the ill-fated tax reform bill that it helped develop, the Utah [Big Business] Taxpayers Association has contacted Republican delegates in at least two Senate races (Fillmore/Cunningham and Weiler/Campbell). The tax reform bill in…
Incumbent Senator Todd Weiler faces a challenge from a very credible opponent – Marci Green Campbell who is running as a convention only candidate. During Todd’s time in the legislature taxes and fees have increased and state spending has ballooned—including…
It is not uncommon for Republican candidates for elective office to choose a dual path to become their Party’s candidate in the November general election. They elect to go through the convention process and to also collect signatures in order…
Rather than using an untried online voting system that lacks transparency and may require technical assistance, the Davis County Republican Party elected to keep it simple by using paper ballots with delegates ranking their choices for each office (IRV voting)….
Shortly after the legislature passed the ill-fated tax reform bill during a special session in December 2019, Rich Cunningham, a former state legislator, announced that he would challenge sitting state senator Lincoln Fillmore for the Republican nomination in state Senate…
Bell out Matt Bell who was challenging Utah Valley University Vice President Val Peterson (incumbent) for the Republican nomination in House District 59 announced on Facebook that he has withdrawn from the race because he has not lived in Utah…
When they cancelled the Republican caucuses, party officials announced that all county and state delegates who were elected by their neighbors during the 2018 caucuses would remain in place. However, since 2018 an unknown number of delegates have moved, resigned…