Voter turnout in Utah has been on the decline for more than a decade. A new study from the Utah Foundation that takes a look at why that might be happening.
Why don’t more Utahns vote? It’s complicated, according to Mallory Bateman, a research analyst at the Utah Foundation and one of the report’s authors.
“The partisan nature of our races. The number of competitive races that exist. And, just kind of the whole caucus convention system can be a little much for people to wrap their head around,” Bateman says.
Jenn Gonnelly is a co-president of the League of Women Voters of Utah. She says they’ve been working to get more people to run for office to create more competitive races, but the potential of a costly campaign scares a lot of people off.
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