Lawyers for the Count My Vote initiative asked the Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday to place it on the Nov. 6 ballot, arguing that processes that disqualified it are unconstitutionally tilted to give opponents huge advantages.
They are so unfair that “a single motivated group, or an individual, could single-handedly keep any initiative off the ballot,” argued County My Vote attorney Matthew Cannon.
That comes after an opposition group called Keep My Voice — funded mostly by ultraconservative GOP millionaire Dave Bateman — torpedoed the initiative that collected nearly 132,000 verified signatures by persuading a relative handful to remove their names in two state Senate districts, where it failed by a combined 100 signatures.