Reports of the death of the Count My Vote ballot initiative may have been greatly exaggerated — thanks to a box of petition signatures that state officials just found and say the Utah County Clerk’s office never processed.
“We found one box that contained 105 petition packets that do not appear to have been reviewed by your office,” Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, the state’s top election official, wrote Wednesday to Utah County Clerk-Auditor Bryan Thompson.
Taylor Morgan, executive director of Count My Vote, says those packets contain thousands of signatures. Also, he said they come from state Senate districts where opponents of the drive earlier said they had persuaded enough petition supporters to remove signatures to block the measure from the ballot.