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Utah GOP chair: state privacy rules hamper party outreach; party pushing legislative fixes
Summary
Rob Axon said the Utah Republican Party cannot access basic voter contact data the state used to release, leaving large "withheld" segments of registered Republicans unreachable and making outreach, caucus notifications and signature verification harder.
Rob Axon told county delegates that state privacy rules and redactions in voter registration data have limited the party's ability to reach voters. "The party has never received emails from the state," Axon said, and he said phone numbers stopped being provided around 2009. He described a large portion of registrations in a withheld category: "between 30-40%, sometimes even higher...in some areas it's as high as 60."
Axon said the party's repeated public-record (GRAMA) requests for fuller files have been denied and that the…
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