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Utah In-Person Voting and Voter Identification Initiative (2022)
| Utah In-Person Voting and Voter Identification Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Voting policy measures and Elections and campaigns | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Utah In-Person Voting and Voter Identification Initiative was not on the ballot in Utah as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.
The ballot measure would have required a valid state-issued ID to vote and would have made in-person voting on election day the primary voting method (rather than voting by mail).[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot initiative is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Utah
In Utah, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the number of active voters as of January 1 of the year following the last regular general election. Petition circulation must be distributed so that signature equal to 8 percent of the active voters are collected from each of at least 26 of the 29 Utah State Senate districts. State law establishes a final signature deadline for direct initiated state statutes as either 316 days after the initial initiative application was filed or February 15 of the election year, whichever is earlier.[2] Moreover, signature petition sheet packets for direct initiatives must be submitted to county clerks on a rolling basis no more than 30 days after the first signature is added to the packet.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 137,929 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was February 15, 2022. An initiative also has a specific deadline 316 days following the initial application.
Each signature is verified by the county clerks in the county where the signature was collected. After verification, the petition forms are delivered to the lieutenant governor, who counts the total number of certified signatures and declares the petition as either sufficient or insufficient.
Details about this initiative
- The ballot initiative, filed by Secure Vote Utah, was filed on December 6, 2021. Sponsors turned in 5,769 signatures by the February 15 deadline, therefore not qualifying for the ballot.[1][3]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Secure Vote Utah, "Proposed law," accessed December 9, 2021
- ↑ If the 15th is a holiday, the deadline is the following business day
- ↑ KUTV, "'Secure Vote Utah' ballot initiative fails to turn in enough signatures," accessed February 16, 2022
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