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Utah Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (2022)
| Utah Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting 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 Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative was not on the ballot in Utah as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.
The ballot measure would have established open top-five primaries and ranked-choice voting for general elections in which voters rank the candidates. The ballot measure would have also established additional election auditing processes.[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.
Stages of the ballot initiative
On August 6, 2021, seven individuals filed the ballot initiative with the lieutenant governor's office. The ballot initiative was titled Utahns for Fair Elections. Sponsors withdrew the initiative before the signature deadline.[1][3]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Utah Lieutenant Governor, "Utahns for Fair Elections Initiative," August 6, 2021
- ↑ If the 15th is a holiday, the deadline is the following business day
- ↑ KUTV, "Organizers withdraw Utah initiative seeking nonpartisan primaries, ranked choice voting," accessed February 16, 2022
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