Utah voting issues

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Election and registration information

For polling and early voting locations contact your County Clerk.

Voting Machines used November, 2008 in Utah

For a county-by-county list of the specific machines (and the source for this section) see Verified Voting's Verifier tool.

Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE) machines with a paper trail:

• Premier Election Solutions's (Diebold) AccuVote-TSX

Main article: Voting machines

Governmental election authorities

State of Utah Elections Office

Gary Herbert, Lieutenant Governor

• Website: http://elections.utah.gov/

Contact information:

• State Capitol, Suite 220.
• Salt Lake City, Utah 84114
• Phone: (801)538-1041 . Fax: (801)538-1133.
• Email: gherbert@utah.gov

• County Clerks

Election threats

• For an extensive log of voting machine problems, see the VotersUnite! report on election incidents.

State and local non-governmental election organizations

League of Women Voters

LWV of Utah
Alice Steiner, President; Nancy Melling, Co-President

• 3804 Highland Drive, Ste. 8D
• Salt Lake City, UT 84106-4209
• Phone: 801-272-8683
• Fax: 801-272-5942
• E-mail: lwvut@mail.xmission.com
• http://lwvutah.org/

Local Leagues:

• Cache County
• Cedar City
• Davis County
• Grand County
• Salt Lake
• Utah County
• Washington County
• Weber County

Articles and resources

See also

• The main page on election protection and reform organizations.
• All articles in the Election Protection Wiki project.
• For election day: Things citizens can do to monitor elections and If you are told you cannot vote.

External resources

Poll location

• GoVote.org locates your polling place and other voting information.
• Google map polling locations locates most polling location, may be missing or out of date.

Election Protection hotlines

• 866-OUR-VOTE (National Election Protection Hotline)
• 888-VE-Y-VOTA (Español)
• 800-966-5946 (AALDEF, Asian languages)
• 866-MYVOTE1 (Tom Joyner Hotline - VoterAction, NAACP National Voter Fund)
• 877-523-2792 (ACLU Voting Rights Project Hotline)
• 877-US4-OBAMA (Obama campaign Voter Hotline)
• 866-976-VOTE (McCain campaign Honest and Open Election hotline - leave a message)
• 877-GOCNN08 (CNN Voter Problem Tipline)
• 888-VOTE-TIP (VelvetRevolution Election Protection Hotline for fraud)
• 567-258-VOTE (Twitter Vote Report key in report or leave audio message)

Voting information

• Vote411.org from the League of Women Voters provides all kinds of information to help you vote.

Voting rights

• ACLU's "Know Your Voting Rights - State by State" -- printable brochures summarizing your voting rights, for most states.
• One-page know your rights summaries for 27 states from the AFL-CIO.

Voting requirements

• Click here to see the voter ID requirements in all states. From the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Election officials, election reform groups, and elected officials

• Why Tuesday? offers a page for Utah that helps locate Utah's elections officials, election reform groups, and elected officials, as well as a page titled Find a group in your area that lets you find similar information for other states.

Absentee voting

• Click here to request an absentee ballot. Go Vote Absentee is a project of the Women Donors Network.

Disabled voters

• Information for voters with disabilities from NDRN.

Student voting rights

• See Utah Student Voting Rights for a guide to student voting rights in Utah. See Student Voting Rights for a guide to other states. From the Brennan Center for Justice.

State ballot

• See how organizations you trust recommend you vote on ballot measures and other statewide contests at TransparentDemocracy.

Languages

• Help in other languages from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. 中文, 日本語, 한국어, Tagalog, Tiếng Việt, Español

Voting machines

• Verified Voting's Utah page, which provides detailed information on voting equipment in use in every county in Utah.

Election law

• Election Law @ Moritz's Utah page, which provides detailed information on election law developments in Utah. See map page to see the information for election developments in any given state.

• Election Law @ Moritz's Utah general information page, which provides information on Utah election authorities, post-election processes, and other topics. See map page to see this information for any given state.