Back in 2020, when examining the state’s data from before the election, it was found that 310,000 Utahns had sent in their ballots and had them processed by their counties. This year, it’s way below half of that.
Salt Lake County's ballot-processing center on the first day mail-in ballots began arriving, in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. At left is longtime Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen.Hey, Utahns, you need to turn in your votes! And county clerks, you’re behind your 2020 pace in counting them!
We usually can use this data, too, to get a wider idea of the trends in the voting. How many people are sending in ballots early, compared to earlier elections? Which counties already have processed more of their ballots? Which parties have been more strongly represented in the early vote-by-mail process?I expected lower voting numbers than when I last looked at the issue in 2020 . But I didn’t expect this big of a gap.
• Some Utahns have probably decided not to cast a mail-in ballot this year, with certain loud voices scaring them away from that process and convincing them that it’s more likely to lead to fraudulent results. These wild swings mean that I feel like it’s pretty impossible to try to even read the tea leaves on who has voted so far. In, with just under two weeks until Election Day, we were able to compare how Republicans and Democrats had different turn-in habits for their ballots: Democrats were more likely to get them in quickly, whereas Republicans waited until closer to Election Day. We even went precinct by precinct to see how votes had shifted.
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