An unidentified speaker told a public meeting that documents obtained from a whistleblower allege widespread problems with nominating petitions in Utah's 2024 gubernatorial race, including thousands of signatures the speaker said were fraudulent and inconsistent verification by county clerks.

The speaker said two outside certified public accounting firms reviewed every signature submitted to the Davis County Clerk and "we found out that there were over 10,000 of those signatures that were fraudulent, and they were counted as good signatures." The speaker attributed the audit request to Phil Lyman and said the finding affected multiple statewide candidates, including Spencer Cox.

The speaker also said a separate review of Don Ibsen's packets in Washington County resulted in many signatures being rejected as forgeries, and that some of those same signatures were accepted as valid for other candidates in Davis County. "So that's a big, big concern," the speaker said.

According to the transcript, efforts by a person identified as Michael (the transcript uses both "Michael Clara" and "Michael Clare") to obtain records from the attorney general's office were denied at multiple levels, including by individuals named Lonnie Pearson and Dan Burton, and a state records committee failed to schedule a hearing. A court summary judgment was also described in which the court ruled against Michael in his records action.

The speaker said a whistleblower later provided the same attorney general documents Michael sought and that those documents indicate an investigation into Spencer Cox's nominating petitions that began in April 2024 and concluded in March 2025. The transcript records the speaker's statement that at least 18 of Cox's petition packets were investigated — "each of them had 50 signatures in them, so it was a total of 900 signatures that were investigated for fraud for Spencer Cox's package" — and that at least 30% of the signatures submitted for Don Ibsen were found to be fraudulent.

The transcript also records an allegation that the lieutenant governor had packets returned to her and that her office verified some of her own packets; the speaker said an independent adviser named Greg Bell was publicly announced to handle concerns but "he never did anything."

The speaker framed these findings as reasons to demand accountability and urged reforms: "We have to have clean elections in Utah," the speaker said, adding that the group will "continue to expose this corruption" and expects changes.

The transcript records these claims and the speaker's quotations but does not include responses from the Davis County Clerk's office, the attorney general's office, the lieutenant governor, Phil Lyman, Spencer Cox, or other named officials. The claims in this article are presented as allegations based on documents the speaker said were provided by a whistleblower and on the speaker's characterization of audits and reports; they have not been independently verified in this article.

The meeting did not record a formal vote or official action on these matters; the speaker urged public accountability and further examination of the documents they described.