A controversy over mail-in ballots in Iron County is threatening to upend Utah primary election results. Due to alleged postal delays, approximately 400 ballots were postmarked too late to be counted, prompting the Iron County Commission to delay certification of the results.
Iron County commissions deferred voting to certify the county’s election results until Tuesday in hopes of finding a way to count around 400 mail-in ballots that missed Utah’s postmark deadline.The Iron County Commission is contemplating not certifying more than 9,800 votes before Tuesday’s state-mandated deadline because approximately 400 mail-in ballots were postmarked after the deadline to be counted in Utah’s 2024 primary election, according to county officials.
Cozeens wrote later that “a lot of folks reach out” after his Friday post to share they’d mailed their ballot before the deadline but later learned their vote would not count. ”This is a big deal. If we can’t trust the post office, why are we using them? I think we have to back off this universal mail-in voting. It’s broken,” Blaine Nay told commissioners.
“The right to vote has been paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands who have come before us,” Cozzens said. “Silencing these voices dishonors their sacrifices and undermines the democratic process. Therefore, I will not vote to certify this election until we have a clear path forward without silencing the voices of those who did their duty and mailed their ballots on time.”
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