More Utahns voted in the 2016 election than when Republican Mitt Romney ran four years earlier, but the Beehive State still has among the lowest rates of voters turning out nationwide.
Many Utah residents may skip the polls on Election Day because they feel their votes don’t matter, according to the Utah Foundation, which released an analysis of Utah voter data and national nonprofit information Tuesday. In 2016, more than 2-in-3 general election races ended in a margin of more than 30 percent, the foundation points out.
