Salt Lake City – Utah will remove with it Universal mail-in-voting System under the bill sent to his Republican Governor as the state’s 2025 MLA was engulfed in a session on Friday.
The Republican-Controlled Legislative Assembly allowed a proposal that voters need to choose to get voting in the mail, meaning they will no longer get them automatically. Voters who want to return their ballot papers by mail or drop b to Q will need to write the last four digits of their driver’s license, State ID or social security number on the ballet return envelope. And starting in 2029, residents who vote in the form will need to show a valid ID.
If the government’s Spencer signs the Cox Bill to the law, it will drastically change the voting system in one of the eight states – and the only one -powered by the Republican – that allows all elections Carried by melee Without the need to choose.
Cox has repeatedly expressed confidence in state election security but said that they may be open to changing the mail-in voting system so that votes can be extended quickly. Currently, the ballet postmarked by the day before the election day can be counted in the following two weeks. The proposal waiting for the cox signature will increase the deadline, with all the ballots needed to be in the possession of the county clerk by 8pm. His Office Fiss on Friday did not comment immediately.
Legislators pointed to the same MLA ITS Ditts to make a case for and against it. There was no evidence of widespread fraud in Utah elections in the recent ITS DIT, but identified some delays in removing the deceased residents from voter rolls. Democrats said changes were unnecessary and would make voting more difficult, while many Republicans said voter role issues show the need for new security measures.
One of the top Republicans of the chamber. “We are confident in the vote,” We have confidence in the vote, ” But we are also concerned with security, and we are trying to balance this bill, how can we increase security and at the same time simplify voting? “
All the Democrats joined the opposition to the five Republicans, which passed with a veto-proof margin in the house and reduced the vote-proof majority of the Senate. If the Cox bill rejects, Republican supporters will need to pull one more senator to override its veto.
Democratic Sen. Net Bluen said that by passing the bill, Republican MLAs were feeding in “conspiracy thinking” around election security.
Republicans have sent their base mixed signals about mail-in voting as being president Force Falsely claimed that the system is confused by fraud to persuade away Loss of 2020 elections. Trump continued to sow the Republican as his campaign team and the Republican National Committee began encouraging the Republican to vote in the 2024 race to avoid giving the edge to the Democrats.
The vast majority of the Utah residents mail to their ballots or deposit them in drop b in.
Previous versions of the bill received a strong pushback from Utah’s County Clerks, who withdrew their opposition. But some say they are concerned about delays that changes will make the election less secure.
This step instructs the clerks to the people on the file to prioritize the verification of ID numbers on the current practice of matching signatures. Weber County clerk Ricky Hatch warned that the fraud of voters could increase as he said that the signing of one’s state ID number was easier than it was.
“It is not a perfect bill, and that is why the clerks have not supported it. We just removed our opposition, “Hatch told the Associated Press. “There is a big reason why we did it because we have been convinced from the sponsors that they will continue to work with us to fix the rest of the issues to help ensure that they do not harm voters.”
The tribal ID will also be accepted under the version of the bill that cleared the MLA, which removed the concern that he would divorce the original American voters in the last state, which gave them access to the ballet B to c.
