Why Salt Lake County is beefing up security for this year’s election

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Salt Lake County is stepping up security at its ballot-processing center after state lawmakers granted the public closer access to election workers.

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.

The ballot-counting headquarters will be marked with yellow tape to show poll watchers where they are allowed to stand, a zone Swensen dubs the “yellow brick road.” She said space in the center is limited when dozens of workers come in to tally votes. Increased security will apply only to the vote-counting hub at the election management center. Swensen said police in local jurisdictions are aware of the

said his party usually has at least one person watching over the count. The party has no plans to encourage more people to sign up for observation.said the state party will have poll watchers, but it isn’t actively recruiting members or the general public to observe election workers.“You don’t ever want any questions to elections,” he said, “especially when it comes to the fever pitch we’ve reached to this point.”isn’t buying the county’s explanation for needing more security.

During the June primary, he said, the party had a total of about 20 people work as poll watchers in rotating shifts of two observers at a time.

 

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Can the suspicious poll watchers be fenced into that corral? I’m not comfortable with people of diminished capacity getting too close to the people processing ballots.

Utah does voting right.

that is a good idea, even for pollwatchers who have no aggressive or ill intent

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