Exactly 149 years after Seraph Young became the first woman to vote not only in Utah but in all of America, Utah lawmakers advanced legislation on Valentine’s Day seeking to rekindle women’s love of voting in the Beehive State.
Beneath a mural depicting the historic vote by Young — a grandniece of Brigham Young — the Utah House unanimously advanced HCR16 on Thursday morning to forevermore designate Valentine’s Day as Women’s Voter Registration Day in Utah. The Senate was scheduled to vote on it in the afternoon.
It comes as Utah women have largely seen the flame go out of their love affair with voting — with the Census estimating that 29.