Ballot Initiatives

As of the morning of April 28, the labor groups hit the 8% target in 15 Senate districts, and 146,480 signatures have been verified.

The signatures turned in are more than double the 140,748 needed. The next step is signature verification, followed by 45 days when opponents can convince people to remove their names.

Labor groups have until April 15 to gather enough signatures to put Utah’s collective bargaining ban on the ballot.

In Utah and elsewhere, lawmakers want to undo voter-approved ballot initiatives or make it harder to pass constitutional amendments.

Representatives from eight unions announced Wednesday they intend to file and collect signatures for a ballot statewide referendum to overturn HB267.

If you ask some in the Legislature, the 60% voter threshold is about accountability when your neighbor is proposing a tax increase. Similar resolutions failed to pass in the last two years.

What is the voter’s place in Utah’s Democracy? It wasn't really an out loud question until the Utah Supreme Court stirred up a hornet's nest over citizen-led ballot initiatives.

Even though Amendment D will remain on the ballot, no votes cast will count after the Utah Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to void it from the November election.

GOP leaders have derided recent decisions as the work of activist judges or “policymaking from the bench.” That has some in the supermajority toying with the idea of judicial reform.

While Gov. Spencer Cox supports the removal of the earmark on public education funding, the Utah teachers’ union has asked a judge to keep the question, Amendment A, off the ballot.

The first of Utah's general election debates featured Gov. Spencer Cox, Rep. Brian King, his Democratic challenger, and Libertarian Robert Latham.

Judge Dianna Gibson’s order says ballots can be printed as certified, but Amendment D is void and won’t be counted. The state could still appeal to the Utah Supreme Court.