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Once upon a time there was “Wiscasset Open House Day,” a day-long celebration held every August when people living within the village opened the doors to their historic homes and offered guided tours for a small fee. The event included a noontime. ....
Rep. Phil Lyman cited concerns with election security, but election officials said there are "no gaping holes" with Utah’s vote-by-mail system. HB371 would have made in-person voting the default in Utah, and voters would need to manually request absentee ballots. Election officials and others argued that it would disenfranchise rural voters, elderly voters and voters with disabilities. ....
A bill that would have returned Utah to in-person voting by default failed to advance from committee on Wednesday after opponents argued that it could disenfranchise voters and had few discernible security benefits. ....
In wake of calls from a now-resigned Utah lawmaker for a "forensic," Arizona-style audit of the red state of Utah’s 2020 election, state lawmakers took a different step and approved a legislative audit of the state’s elections process. A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll reveals what Utahns think about whether Utah should audit its elections and if they trust state elections officials. ....
A large majority of Utahns trust that their state will conduct a fair election in 2022 \u2014 but they re more split over whether the 2020 election should be audited. ....