Mitt Romney, hot-button citizens initiatives and leftover emotions from the 2016 presidential race are setting up to help haul Utah out of the voter participation basement in the upcoming midterm, according to observers.
And Utah Democrats are adding new voters at a rate outpacing their GOP counterparts by almost 3-1, when measured as a percentage of growth.
Morgan Lyon Cotti, Hinckley Institute of Politics associate director, said current ballot items and lingering emotions that track back to the 2016 election are combining to incentivize Utah voters . . .
A 2017 Utah Foundation report on voter issues in the state noted Utah was 39th in the country for voter participation. That rate, according to the report, has been trending downward since the 1970s, when the state was among the nation’s leaders in percentage of voters engaging with the election process.
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