Written by Derek Monson
January 15, 2025
One possible high-profile election reform that has been in the news is to take election oversight out of the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s Office and put it in the hands of another appointed or elected official. Proposals have ranged from an elected secretary of state, like many other states have, to an election official appointed by a committee of elected leaders. If lawmakers choose to reform election oversight, Utah voters have a clear preference for how this top election official should be chosen.
By a nearly 3-to-1 margin, Utah voters believe that the person overseeing elections should be chosen by themselves and not elected officials. Almost three-fourths (74%) of Utah voters say that the person overseeing elections should be elected by voters, whereas just over one-fourth (26%) of voters want the person overseeing elections to be appointed by elected officials.
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