So how did the Utah County Clerk’s Office fail to process — and lose track of — thousands of signatures on petitions seeking to put the Count My Vote initiative on the ballot?
“They had been put in the pile with the already worked packets,” County Clerk-Auditor Bryan Thompson wrote to Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox in a letter released Thursday.
In other words, Thompson said it was not the result of anything nefarious to hurt the initiative that is called, after all, Count My Vote. It was just a stupid mistake.
That comes a day after the office of Cox — the state’s top election officer — found a box of 105 petition packets that it said had not been processed.