Aaron Davidson
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Utah being the "Gold Standard" of elections turns out to be @GovCox behind the curtain. Now he's digging to place blame on others.
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Maybe if @mikemckellutah @Amelia4Utah & @DeidreHenderson hadn't promoted returning ballots through the mail, these voters wouldn't have been disenfranchised. Postmarked on the 5th. 39 w/o a postmark. Can't count them.
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If politicians would promote the use of drop boxes or in person voting over mailing them back, these ballots may have gotten to us on time and could have been counted. Postmarked too late. @mikemckellutah @DeidreHenderson @KSL5TV @Amelia4Utah @gopTODD.Don't blame the voter.
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And the Utah Legislature is worried about me revealing how a couple of public officials returned their ballots. Petty preoccupation when they could be making meaningful changes. @DeidreHenderson @mikemckellutah @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV @KSLcom @sltrib.
HUGE WIN For Election Integrity ‼️ 🇺🇸. Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane “Ada County, just launched their ballot verifiers. They created a tool. It's one of the first of its kind in the nation where they post every single image of every single ballot here in the county. Not
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Wow! Where were the stories on these lines in Weber Cnty?.@LindsayOnAir @KSL5TV @KSLcom @DeidreHenderson #utpol @lisarileyroche
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@LGHendersonUtah Utah County received 11,309 provisional ballots. My staff have been working 13 hour shifts this past week and we'll be working Saturday and Sunday. Utah is not the Gold Standard you hold it up to be. The rug has been pulled up and there is a lot of dirt under it.
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Wow! Maybe I should be calling for the resignation of @Amelia4Utah. At the very end. Hypocrisy at its finest. @LindsayOnAir @KSLcom @mikemckellutah @AlixelCabrera @lisarileyroche #utpol @repastoddard @KSL5TV .
Is this the same @Amelia4Utah calling on @ARDavidson to abandon his duties as @UtahCoElections Clerk? If so, can you spot the hypocrisy ? #Utpol
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Stephanie Gricius and @mikemckellutah airing their personal grievances through legislative action. Do you have the power to make your pet peeves illegal?. Do you consider this an abuse of power?.
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A Sutherland Institute survey shows that the voters overwhelmingly want a Secretary of State over an appointed elections director to run Utah's elections. Are the legislators listening?.#utpol @Rep_oo7 @JStuartAdams @sltrib @KSLcom
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@LindsayOnAir @mikemckellutah @KSL5TV Privacy status only applies to personal identifiable information (PII). How someone returns a ballot is not PII. McKell's actions are raising the cost of running an election. But like you and McKell care about that.
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Just finished first pass on the ballots we received through our drop boxes yesterday and the mail today, now we get to do signature verification on them all. 😵💫
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@RCAggie Utah County had six members of the public show up for our post-election audit and I let them pick out half the batches of ballots that we audited. They handled the ballots and worked the computer images to confirm the tabulation. It was a great morning.
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@LGHendersonUtah According to the same survey and presented differently, 53% of Utah voters are not completely confident that your status government officials conducted a fair and accurate election in 2024.
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@ColbyforUtah All election officials and politicians should be more transparent about the issues with using USPS to return ballots. It is not completely safe and secure. They should be promoting voting in person and using County Election drop boxes as the highly preferred ways.
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@realericmoutsos The verification process and provisionals have made the counting process so complicated and long that there's no time to do any analysis on the results before everything by statute has to be locked away, never to be seen again. Maybe that's why it's been made to be so complicated.
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@jntrcs @LGHendersonUtah You mean Utah County suppressed votes by deliberately not paying for return postage on the ballots, just like 18 other Utah counties? Keep trying.
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@Amelia4Utah @LindsayOnAir @KSLcom @mikemckellutah @AlixelCabrera @lisarileyroche @repastoddard @KSL5TV You would not have access to where a private citizen cast her ballot unless you were tracking her. How did you gather that information? Did you as a county commissioner illegally access the Clerk's records?.
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Thanks to the many wonderful people who have shown up to volunteer their time to work the phones to cure the ballots where the signatures didn't match. My staff is working tirelessly on the provisional ballots. #utpol
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There's a real appetite for voting on person. This is the Lehi voting location.
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Looks like Utah has fallen behind even more in setting that Gold Standard for elections. @DeidreHenderson @LGHendersonUtah @GovCox @Amelia4Utah @SenThatcher @mikemckellutah.
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@gopTODD And you're not concerned about the ballots of 39 voters? Wow. Actually, all of those ballots will not be counted because they were postmarked to late. The 39 are envelopes the post office didn't care enough to apply a postmark at all.
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@gopTODD And we did not run out of ballot paper. The LG's office overreacted. We had extra paper we delivered to each voting location.
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This builds no trust in the US Postal Service. Please use the County Elections drop boxes or vote in person. #utpol .
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Call the media. Chads found just laying on the floor outside of the Utah County Elections Division office. What are they trying to cover up? @LindsayOnAir @GovCox @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV #utpol
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I just found out a husband of one of our poll workers died on election day while she was working the polls. 😥 She also worked our early voting location the whole week before. Please crowd support her by buying something from her Etsy shop.
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@gopTODD @DChadwickAuthor Funny thing @gopTODD, I'm one of those County clerks and even I don't open the ballots and tally the votes, I have staff that does that, but you wouldn't understand that. The provisional ballots were an issue in 2020 and nothing has been done by the LG to improve the process.
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I actually feel Jacob Nielson did a fair and balanced report on @Amelia4Utah's explosive rant performance at Utah County's Canvass meeting last tuesday.
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@LindsayOnAir @CoryGreen14 @UtahCoElections @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @phil_lyman @BasedMikeLee @ColbyforUtah @GovCox Nice explanation. So since it's a new in-person voting method, 19 explainable exceptions is newsworthy, but receiving 4,300 questionable ballots from the US Postal Service is no big deal because, you know, it's the safe and secure method of voting.
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@LindsayOnAir @UtahCoElections @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV Funny how the 4,300 ballots that were delivered to us by the US Postal Service outside of the established chain of custody protocol were not mentioned in the review. But don't worry, the LG's office is worried about the 19 that I already addressed in the canvass meeting.
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Closing shop after finishing 11,309 provisional ballots with the help of the great County Clerks of Juab and Tooele Counties. Thanks!!!!!
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@Deseret @BrighamTomco The claim that the legislators mentioned in this article have talked with County clerks is referring to those clerks that have called our current system the gold standard. They have not talked to the clerks that identified the faults in the system before this election.
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@mikemckellutah Oh, you poor thing. Keep trying. This was addressed at Canvass with the real reason. What about the 3,900 ballots and the 1,400 blank undeliverable ballots that were delivered by the post office outside of the established chain of custody protocol. Crickets by the media.
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Big success in promoting the use of Election Drop Boxes over the use of the U.S. Postal Service. #utpol #Election2024 @mikemckellutah @DeidreHenderson @Amelia4Utah .
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Last August the LG's office audited Utah County's Elections Office and publicly released a report condemning it's high signature rejection rate. Do you think they'll audit Davis County's rejection rate? .@LGHendersonUtah @KSLcom @GovCox @goud4utah @donMiguelSLC @sltrib #utpol
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@beaustin24 @mikemckellutah @Amelia4Utah @DeidreHenderson Because @mikemckellutah and @DeidreHenderson both voted to pass the bill that allowed it. And 19 of the 29 counties don't pay return postage.20A-3a-202 Conducting election by mail. (8) A county that administers an election:.(d) is not required to pay return postage for a ballot.
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These are some of the statements that got me into politics. Now my fight is unveiling the "Gold Standard" of Utah elections and actually make some improvements.
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@ColbyforUtah Utah County received 757 ballots too late to be counted. @mikemckellutah @LindsayOnAir @Amelia4Utah @LGHendersonUtah all promoted using USPS for ballot returns without a stamp. Maybe they should have encouraged the use of drop boxes and voting in person. True disenfranchisement.
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@TracieHalvorsen @UtahGOP @phil_lyman @Doctor_I_am_The Judge Durrant also is the chief judge that kept the courts closed to in person trials well after the perceived threat of covid was done.
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This is a perfect example of why I don't grant @SchottHappens any of my time for interviews. It's time for the @sltrib to let him go.
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@RussJRampton @GrayM0untain @LindsayOnAir @LGHendersonUtah Here's just one of the problems with encouraging using the mail system to return ballots. These were postmarked on the 5th. They may have been left with the post office on the 4th. They will not be counted.
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The Marriage License & Passport Division of the Utah County Clerk's office just received a National GovX award for the security and functional improvements in its online marrriage license portal. These efforts were mainly implemented by @RussJRampton . #utpol
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@LindsayOnAir @ColbyforUtah @KSL5TV If Washington County has that many ballots to cure, it probably means they are taking signature verification seriously. However, I've not yet heard of a voter complaining about being harassed by being notified by a candidate of the need to cure their ballot.
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@mikemckellutah Utah State Code 20A-3a-202(8)(d) says, "A county that administers an election is not required to pay return postage for a ballot." 20 of 29 Utah counties do not pay return postage.
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Washington County has joined in the move to encourage in person voting and only using County Election Drop Boxes, the US Postal Service is no longer verifiable as safe and secure.
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@LindsayOnAir @mikemckellutah Cover the real story Lindsay. Returning your ballot through the US Postal Service is the least safe method and McKell is promoting it as a Utah County legislator.
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@donMiguelSLC @utahlegislature @mschultz_12 Did you catch the two pot shots he made toward me in his statements?.
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@goud4utah @DeidreHenderson Ballots returned in the mail is only a drop in the big bucket. It's the 47,000 provisional ballots cast on election day this year and trying to get voters to "cure" their ballots that were rejected in the signature verification process. It's endless.
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@saltyinut @LindsayOnAir @UtahCoElections @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV Scream it as loud as you want with all the data and facts behind you, most still will not listen. Cognitive dissonance runs very strong.
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@donMiguelSLC @mikemckellutah @Amelia4Utah McKell talks of being concerned with election integrity but he couldn't decide on how to vote on HB448 last year, the biggest change in election law in over a decade, so he didn't vote. He doesn't want any of his voting record revealed. Get over it, you're a "public" official.
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@DaniellaKSL @LindsayOnAir @phil_lyman No she doesn't. She gets the info she wants to present the story she wants.
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@ColbyforUtah Your County Clerk and Commissioners see what's going on now. Support their efforts and spread the word so this does not happen again. Using the USPS system is not safe and secure.
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@LindsayOnAir @phil_lyman Do you use that same line with everyone you disagree with politically? So much for being an impartial reporter.
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@LGHendersonUtah Stop hiding the dirt with platitudes and let's start working to fix the election systems in Utah.
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@mikemckellutah Are you going to start criticizing Washington County for promoting only voting in person and using election drop boxes, and that they don't fully trust the USPS system. They also do not have prepaid postage for their ballot envelopes.
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@AlanWessman @LindsayOnAir @UtahCoElections @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV I could make those claims about the 4,300 ballots just like the LG's office made unsubstantiated claims about the 19 ballots and offer no back up to those claims. What's the difference? Magnitude.
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@BarrettaSj @mikemckellutah @DeidreHenderson @KSL5TV @Amelia4Utah @gopTODD Just over 500. In the Utah races, it would not have affected any races . this time.
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@LindsayOnAir @mikemckellutah @KSL5TV @Amelia4Utah reveils where a private voter cast her ballot. How would Amelia even know where Tiffany voted. She wasn't the Clerk at the time. Did she have illegal access to the County Clerk's records? This needs to be investigated.
Is this the same @Amelia4Utah calling on @ARDavidson to abandon his duties as @UtahCoElections Clerk? If so, can you spot the hypocrisy ? #Utpol
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@LGHendersonUtah You say 47,000 provisional ballots like you're proud of it. 47,000 x 5 min = 235,000 min ÷ 60 = 3,917 hours. Volunteers cannot help with this task. This is the main reason counting takes sooooo freakin' long in Utah. You've known this has been a problem and you've done nothing.
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@LindsayOnAir @mikemckellutah @KSL5TV Well, with this being the new precedence, I expect KSL will no longer be covering the elections live at any voting location. You might expose that someone voted in person. 🤔.
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@DJJazzyJody I saw you over there by the dumpsters taking our picture. That's why I turned my sign so you could see it. And yes the exchange with the Principle was friendly. It turns out, with the mandates coming down from the governors office, they are doing what they have to to stay open.
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Another badge of honor; the first bill to be addressed this session by the Gov Ops committee, HB69, the lookie-loo bill. Come in person or watch online. #utpol @LindsayOnAir @mikemckellutah @LGHendersonUtah @KSLcom.
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@AlanWessman @LindsayOnAir @UtahCoElections @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV I asked the State for factual confirmation that the 19 ballots we cast fraudulently as they claimed. I'm giving you what I got. Should be good enough for you.
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@UTDHC @mikemckellutah @Amelia4Utah @DeidreHenderson You're right, it was clear. Nov 4th. These were postmarked on the 5th, and for 39 of them, not at all. If the voter had placed them in an Elections drop box, as i have been advocating for or voted in person, they would have been counted. 638 total ballots.
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@UTNewsDispatch McKell talks of being concerned with election integrity but he couldn't decide on how to vote on HB448 last year, the biggest change in election law in over a decade, so he didn't vote. He doesn't want any of his voting record revealed. Get over it, you're a "public" official.
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@BasedMikeLee The USPS is a mail processing entity not a well functioning ballot processing entity operating within strict guidelines and uses no documented chain of custody tracking. Using USPS should be a voter's last resort of returning a ballot to be properly counted.
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@KSLcom Election day registration and able to vote that same day either needs to disappear or be completely automated. Processing provisional ballots is the main reason ballots cannot be counted in hours. The second is giving voters time to cure their unverifiable signatures.
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@TracieHalvorsen @mikemckellutah When liberals get caught masking as a conservative, their only option is to delete their offensive posts to try to draw the curtain back closed. until the next time.
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@LindsayOnAir @LGHendersonUtah Every "media perceived crisis" was addressed promptly and averted. Yes, Utah County had long lines, but almost all the counties did and Utah County was not the last to finish up processing all their voters. What's the "real" story?.
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@ClintoPete All voters were processed. The airplane was the LG's decision before even talking with me. We had ballots on hand and they were delivered to each voting location. We didn't need nor did we receive and ballots from any other entity.
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@LindsayOnAir It's easier to keep a job when you tell the truth rather than a slanted story to fit your agenda. Good luck in your next gig.
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@ColbyforUtah In Utah County, I really pushed for the use of in person voting and election drop boxes. In Person went from 0.7% to 3.55%. Drop box use went from 60% to 77%. And that was with a Cnty commissioner saying, use USPS it's safe and effective. We still received 759 ballots too late.
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@gale_kc @RealTStevenson Because I told all the other KSL reporters they could not share their interview notes and clips of me with her.
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@YelCed94 @GovCox @LGHendersonUtah @phil_lyman Help me get things changed. The establishment doesn't want my voice. My voice causes them concern. They will make changes this legislative session, but it will be changed they want, not what the people want.
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@LindsayOnAir It's not an election year? . I guess that's one way to tell all the cities they're not important to you. As for me and my staff, we'll still be preparing for all the municipal elections this year.
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@realDASC @Amelia4Utah @LindsayOnAir @KSLcom @mikemckellutah @AlixelCabrera @lisarileyroche @repastoddard @KSL5TV Wow. I hadn't heard of that event. Do you have more details or a link?.
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@SophieAnde49073 Go find an empty church parking lot and do some donuts. We haven't had enough snow down here in Utah County yet this winter to truly enjoy the fun benefits of snow. 😁.
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@ColbyforUtah Use your energy to promote in person voting, the most secure way to vote, then the use of Election Drop Boxes, and the very last portion to mail them in.
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@DowningUt @mikemckellutah @Amelia4Utah @DeidreHenderson What mistake would that be? To encourage voters to use the more safe and secure method of returning their ballots, so this would happen to their ballot. This disenfranchisement lies at the feet of @mikemckellutah, he promoted using the least safe way and caused this.
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@mikemckellutah Politics? Really? You're the one that writes and votes on the code. I'm just following code and agreeing with the majority of the county clerks. I can't help that my predecessors wanted to use taxpayer money to win your approval. It sounds like you're the one playing politics.
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@Amelia4Utah @beaustin24 @mikemckellutah @DeidreHenderson Really? A poll tax? Talk to your friend @mikemckellutah, he's the one that voted to approve HB321 in 2015 and HB36 in 2030. I guess there's 19 County Clerks in Utah that should be charged for not paying return postage on ballots.
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It's National Voter Registration Day and the @UtahCoElections Division placed a new drop box on UVU's campus and they had a ribbon cutting ceremony today. These were the treats. #utpol @ElectionsUtah
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@bkheywood 500k signatures is a tremendous hurdle to get an initiative on the ballot. I admire your tenacity to get multiple initiatives qualified. It's to bad @realDonaldTrump doesn't know he should be considering you for his VP. You would get things done.
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Davis County rejected 3% of the ballots returned by mail or drop box, 2nd highest in the state. Did they investigate all 4,622 rejected ballots in order to make the definitive claim that there was no fraud?.#utpol @KatieMcKellar1.
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@elonmusk Media Independent = Democrat identifying as an Independent for perception reasons, but very much still a Democrat.
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@gopTODD @skwalker117 @mikemckellutah @DeidreHenderson @KSL5TV @Amelia4Utah @LGHendersonUtah In an X post? I can't. Why don't you get some legislators together and let's have an actual conversation.
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@TruthFromEarth @donMiguelSLC @LGHendersonUtah @mschultz_12 @UtahCoElections @Amelia4Utah Maybe her photographic memory doesn't apply to her memory of how to spell specific words . or maybe it remembers wrong also.
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@RussJRampton Sharing videos where someone outright lies about your department head is probably not a good idea. What's your intent for spreading lies? You should watch yourself.
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@SchottHappens Are you seriously still using the term "Election denier"? . I was also recently seen at a pro RCV presentation. I guess exposing myself to both sides of election issues isn't acceptable to your echo chamber mentality.
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@dbmnm_1 @LindsayOnAir @UtahCoElections @LGHendersonUtah @KSL5TV The well established chain of custody is the USPS does not deliver to us any mail during the election period. Two of my staff go to the defined post office and pick up our mail and ballots. No single person should ever have custody of the ballots outside of the post office.
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@PatriotAdjacent @mikemckellutah @DeidreHenderson @KSL5TV @Amelia4Utah @gopTODD I have more compassion for the well intended voter. If the top politicians and election officials are out there saying, by mail or drop box it's the same. Well, I'm here to tell the voter, it's not the same. By mail carries more risks of your voice not being counted.
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@ColbyforUtah The USPS has become a bulk mail processing entity, not a secure ballot processing entity. The chain of custody is completely broken when a ballot is returned through the US Postal Service. It's a risk the voter must bare, not the Clerk's.
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@tvheidihatch @MLDonk . but it's the gold standard, we're told to say. Don't create any doubt in the minds of the voters that the system is anything but safe and secure. Signature verification and the cures is a major disenfranchisement of voters, mainly first time voters.
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@GrayM0untain @disagreebutter @phil_lyman @KingForUtah @GovCox No there isn't. It would actually be an Unaffiliated candidate, but that deadline is past. He could only get declared as a write-in candidate, but his name would not appear on the ballot. Voters would need to know they would have to write his name on their ballot.
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