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Utah County holds wide public work session on election verification, legal limits on post‑election data access highlighted
Summary
Commissioners spent the bulk of a work session reviewing options for statistical election verification, were advised that Utah law and retention rules limit access to cast vote records after canvass, and heard two hours of public comment urging more transparency and paper‑ballot methods.
Commissioners at the Utah County Commission meeting on Nov. 8 convened an extended work session to discuss election verification and whether county officials can conduct post‑election statistical analyses of detailed voting data.
Commissioner Bill Lee said he had sought additional election data during the board of canvassers process and that the county subsequently voted to issue an RFP for election verification. Lee described two major hurdles: legal limits on access to ballots and related election returns after canvass, and the technical need for ballot‑level exports to perform meaningful statistical anomaly detection.
Elections staff and counsel told the commission that Utah statute and recent case law treat ballots and…
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