Utah on path to end automatic mail ballots after wave of misinformation
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson speak to reporters on March 7 about a bill to change the state's mail-in voting system. Photo by Hanna Schoenbaum / The Associated Press
The Washington Post
Utah is poised to abolish its practice of automatically mailing ballots to all voters, handing a victory to President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans who have vilified voting by mail since his 2020 election defeat.
The likely changes in Utah are modest compared with Trump’s calls for ending mail voting altogether, but would nonetheless mark a dramatic shift in a Republican stronghold that has long embraced mail balloting as convenient and secure.
Under a bill approved by the GOP-controlled legislature, starting in 2029 election clerks would stop mailing ballots to all registered voters and instead send them only to those who request them. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) has praised the legislation as “brilliant” and is expected to sign it soon.
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