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Senate advances election-law overhaul after heated floor debate over satellite voter registration
Summary
The Utah Senate advanced SB 211 — a set of election-law updates including provisional-ballot rules and a 30-day registration cutoff — after a contested substitute on satellite registration failed. Salt Lake County warned removing satellite options would increase provisional ballots and delay results.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate on Feb. 20 advanced Senate Bill 211, a package of election-law changes that its sponsor said will bring state rules "into the 21st century," after a prolonged floor debate over satellite voter registration and provisional-ballot procedures.
Senator Deidre Stevenson, sponsor of SB 211, told colleagues the bill updates state election law to reflect modern registration methods and eliminates costly satellite registration programs. "This bill relates to election law, and it, updates our election law and brings them into the 20 first century," Stevenson said on the floor.
Salt Lake County Clerk Senator McCoy offered a floor substitute that would have preserved a county's option to run satellite registration events while keeping the bill's…
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