At least three Utah cities are cautiously moving forward with a new voting method for the 2019 municipal elections that they hope will boost turnout and save money.
Any municipality in the state can take part in the pilot project for “ranked-choice voting" that was approved by the Legislature earlier this year — but it hasn’t been easy to recruit cities to take the leap.
“The biggest challenge that we’re running into is that most of the cities contract with their respective county clerk to implement their elections, and the clerk also has some apprehension of what that looks like in terms of how their equipment is,” said outgoing Rep.