The legislation presented by State Sen. Nate Blouin, D-Salt Lake City, would narrow when local election officials can remove ballot drop boxes and require them to notify voters and the lieutenant governor’s office.
The bill would create parameters for when ballot drop boxes can be removed and allow mail-in ballots postmarked on Election Day to be counted.
“I’m running this is to make voting more accessible for people, you know, to make sure every vote is counted,” Blouin said., a local election officer, such as a county clerk, can authorize two or more election workers to remove a ballot drop box at any time with no requirements to notify voters of the change.
Blouin said he decided to bring this to the legislature after learning about drop boxes being removed early in San Juan County. Removing some drop boxes early was necessary, Duncan told The Tribune in December, because the clerk’s office didn’t have the staff to collect them after polls closed on Election Day. He added the county also provided more polling locations than usual due to a delay in early in-person voting.
Salt Lake County Clerk Lannie Chapman, who presented the bill with Blouin, said tabulating ballots postmarked on Election Day would not significantly impact the county’s ability to process ballots since they begin processing before Election Day.In Salt Lake County, about one percent of mail-in ballots received in the 2022 primary election were postmarked on or after Election Day, preventing them from being tallied, Chapman told The Tribune.
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