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Utah lawmakers using every trick in the book to end vote by mail.
Hits & Mises
Miss: Sausage Grinders After an unnecessary and unpopular voting bill was curiously moved to a preposterous committee—Public Utilities—we learned that this is how the Legislature “makes its sausage.” The bill, HB479, pretends to be a fraud buster, but is actually a bald-faced attempt to dismantle vote-by-mail.
While the sponsor suggested 300 dead people had voted in the last election, he was hard-pressed to show any evidence. Then, the committee chair mandated equal time for opponents and supporters, when more than 30 opponents showed up to testify.
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