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House approves bill requiring county clerks to preserve digital election records for research and oversight
Summary
Lawmakers passed HB 263 directing county clerks to preserve digital images of election records for 12 years and to allow limited research access under safeguards; members debated costs and whether storage should be centralized. The measure passed 60–13.
The Utah House on March 3 passed House Bill 263, a measure requiring county election officials to create and preserve electronic copies of certain election records and to make them available for restricted research and oversight.
Representative Thurston, the bill sponsor, said the measure grew out of a discovery that many election documents—particularly envelope postmarks and related images—were not being retained in a way that allowed later analysis.…
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