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Public commenter urges local control and full audits, alleges mail-in voting undermines secrecy
Summary
During public comment, Deanna Hardy said commission minutes mischaracterize her remarks and urged the commission to protect secret ballots and allow full election audits, alleging vote-by-mail and state action have harmed election integrity; the commission did not act on the request during the meeting.
Deanna Hardy addressed the commissioners during public comment and criticized the way meeting minutes are written, saying the minutes were stating things she did not say and asking for verbatim accuracy in the official record.
Hardy then raised broader election-related allegations: she said the state legislature and officials had violated the Utah Constitution by allowing widespread voting by mail and argued that vote-by-mail is not a secret ballot. She called for county-level control of elections and for a full audit of election processes so “the people need to verify that the elections are free from corruption.”
“The elections have become corrupt by denying the citizens the right to secret ballot and also denying the citizens the right to audit the entire election process,” Hardy said, and added that the Box Elder Committee of Liberty would continue to urge commissioners to defend constitutional duties.
Commissioners did not debate these assertions during the meeting; the public-comment period concluded after Hardy’s remarks and staff accepted written copies of comments for the record. The county did not announce any immediate action or investigation in response to the allegations during this session.
