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Petitioners challenge clerk’s validation of referendum signatures; clerk defends process and cites state law
Summary
Petition sponsors said 6,600 submitted signatures were not counted and questioned the use of a new electronic-submission deadline; Clerk/Auditor Amelia Powers said the office followed state verification rules, offered to share rejection reasons, and urged legislative fixes for onerous statutory timing requirements.
Petition sponsors at a Utah County Commission meeting pressed the clerk/auditor’s office over why thousands of signatures for a referendum were not validated, and whether a 2019 state law on electronic submission was applied correctly. Speakers asked the commission to remedy what they called an unfair process; the clerk’s office explained the verification steps and invited petitioners to review rejected signatures.
Catherine Heinmarsh and other petition backers said the referendum team submitted roughly 23,000 signatures and that about 6,600 were not counted. They questioned why long-time voters…
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