Two controversial election reform bills crammed into one committee hearing passed Tuesday amid concerns from local elections officials.

Utah hasn’t been the typical deep red state when it comes to voting by mail. It’s been an outlier from Republican-controlled states that in recent years have looked to limit mail-in voting, as state leaders here have generally supported its universal vote-by-mail system that remains popular with most Utah voters.

House Majority Whip Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, and Rep. Jefferson Burton, R-Salem, presented their bills during a House Government Operations Standing Committee before a who’s-who of GOP leadership, conservative activists and election officials.

There’s lots of options for the lieutenant governor to clean up our voter rolls,” House Majority Whip Karianne Lisonbee told her colleagues of her bill to end Utah’s use of ERIC.

One Utah lawmaker wants the governor’s running mate out of the election oversight business, because of perceived conflicts of interest. But others say his bill is a “solution in search of a problem,” and that Utah’s elections are run well.

Republican and Democratic legislators are looking to reform the primary election process put in place by SB54 10 years ago.

An anti-gerrymandering lawsuit contending the Utah Legislature acted unconstitutionally when it repealed and replaced a 2018 ballot initiative creating an independent redistricting commission is back in court.

The way Utahns cast their ballots in elections could look different after a bill passed a House committee on Tuesday.

Election officials's mistakes in two southern Utah counties put the integrity of multiple 2024 elections at risk

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A new bill proposed in the Utah legislature would seek to make big changes to how voters return their mail-in ballots during the election. H.B. 300, otherwise known as Amendments to Election Law, would require voters returning a ...

A new bill released today seeks to create a new election office separate from the Lt. Governor to oversee Utah’s election system.

Utah legislators abandoned efforts Wednesday to compromise on HB267, restoring a sweeping proposed prohibition on collective bargaining for public employees in the latest bill draft.