Cut Caucus-Convention Power

December 07, 2011 (Salt Lake Tribune)

Gov. Jon Huntsman’s Commission on Strengthening Utah’s Democracy worked diligently to determine why Utah’s voter participation had tanked from leading the nation in voter turnout to a ranking that is now a miserable 50 percent. According to Commission Chair and Hinckley Institute of Politics Director Kirk Jowers, “The 800-pound gorilla of our democratic malaise is the caucus-and-convention system.”

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