SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah 17-year-olds are heading to the polls for the first time Tuesday under a new state law allowing them to vote in primary races if they’ll be 18 by November. KUER radio reports the law was passed by state lawmakers earlier this year. Pleasant View 17-year-old […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney is readying for a second chance to dispatch a state lawmaker who defeated him at the state Republican Party convention in the race for a Utah Senate seat. He’s competing with Mike Kennedy in a primary election Tuesday to replace U.S. Sen. Orrin […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Financial disclosures show former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a large leg up on his opponent heading into Utah Republican primary next Tuesday. Romney’s campaign reported raising nearly $2 million between April and June. He spent $1.4 million in that period and has roughly $1.6 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Early voting for Utah’s primary election has begun, with the marquee matchup pitting former presidential candidate Mitt Romney against state lawmaker Mike Kennedy to become the Republican nominee for Senate. Polls were scheduled to open in at least 11 locations around the state Tuesday. Early voting will […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The police chief of Pleasant Grove is facing off against a former U.S. marshal to become sheriff of Utah’s second largest county in an election that will be decided by the Republican Party primary. Police Chief Mike Smith and retired U.S. Marshal Jim Phelps are […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A candidate for Utah County sheriff has filed a complaint with election officials after seeing video he claims shows a police officer hanging a campaign sign for his opponent. The complaint filed by retired U.S. Marshal Jim Phelps last week says a uniformed Pleasant Grove […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney says he voted for his wife for president in 2016. Romney, a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah, told the Deseret News on Wednesday that he cast a write-in vote for Ann Romney even though he knew the choice wouldn’t go anywhere. Still, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State election officials are investigating reports of unauthorized changes to some voters’ political parties on their voter registrations. The Deseret News reports members of the United Utah Party including the young party’s first congressional candidate Jim Bennett reported that their voter registrations were changed to unaffiliated or […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah voters are poised to decide whether to make it easier for political candidates to bypass their party’s convention system. An updated count of verified signatures posted by the state’s elections office Thursday shows the initiative has unofficially qualified for the ballot. The proposal would […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of conservative Republicans has hired a firm to persuade Utah voters to remove their names from a ballot initiative petition that would cement Utah’s candidate nominating system. Fundraising disclosure forms show Keep My Voice spent $174,000 on the effort. Backer Dave Bateman tells the […]
