Clerk presents primary election canvas, reports 4,674 ballots; no vote recorded in provided excerpt

The county clerk presented the primary election canvass to the Tooele County Council on June 30, saying the office processed 4,674 ballots, roughly a 22% return rate of about 21,000 active eligible registered voters. The clerk told the council the office conducted outreach to voters who submitted incorrect ballots and implemented reconciliation work to account for ballots and tabulation results.

Clerk (first referenced in the transcript as the speaking clerk) said the team pursued multiple remedies for affected voters, including phone calls, emails, texts and reprinted ballots, and that most voters were given an opportunity to cast a cured ballot. "We processed a total of 4,674 ballots totaling just over a 22% return rate," the clerk said. The clerk also reported eight provisional ballots were counted and that an additional 47 received ballots were ineligible because they arrived late, were empty, or could not be cured.

The clerk explained that the office completed a ballot reconciliation and has started testing new digital verification tools for newly required four-digit identifiers on mail ballots. The clerk said packaging for the canvass (including a 52-page precinct summary and a public cast vote record template from the lieutenant governor's office) was distributed to council members earlier the same morning. No formal motion or vote on the canvass appears in the provided excerpt; the clerk said further updates about vendor contracts and operational changes would be provided in the weeks after the election.

Council members thanked the clerk and staff for the work and acknowledged lingering public skepticism about the recent ballot issues. A council member said, "we've got a real dearth of trust in that right now," and expressed appreciation for the office's outreach and planned fixes.