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Utah County Clerk Aaron Davidson: signature 'cures' and software bugs risk ballot validity; backs verification and transparency
Summary
In a Utah County Republican Party podcast interview, incumbent County Clerk Aaron Davidson said mail‑out ballots have increased signature verification problems—disproportionately affecting young voters—urged stronger citizenship checks, defended publishing anonymized cast vote records, and warned of ranked‑choice software bugs that changed local outcomes.
Aaron Davidson, the incumbent Utah County clerk and a candidate for re‑election, told a Utah County Republican Party podcast that recent changes to mail‑out voting and ballot‑processing software have increased the risk of ballots being excluded and that county clerks need better tools and transparency to secure results.
Davidson said signature verification and the cure process present a major challenge for first‑time and younger voters. "We're getting those come through as the signature on people's ballots, and we have to verify those signatures," he said, adding that "over 50% of the cure letters are to these 18 to 25 year olds, and more than half of them never respond." He told the host the statewide total of ballots that did not cure in the presidential election was about 20,606, roughly 1% of ballots received.
The clerk framed his concern as both a security and access issue: mail‑out ballots are easy to return but the return path (through the U.S. Postal Service or drop boxes) reduces chain‑of‑custody visibility, while…
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