A dozen Democratic lawmakers, advocates \u2014 and one Republican \u2014 huddled in the cold outside of the Utah Capitol to call for a repeal of the state s food tax.
Utah Democrats are pushing bills to repeal Utah’s sales tax on food. But Utah Republican leaders haven’t supported getting rid of the food tax, saying they favor other proposals.
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Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY The Utah Senate is poised to pass a bill to prevent voters from switching party affiliation in the months before primary elections after frustration over alleged “party raiding” during last year’s election.
HB197 co-sponsor Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, noted that over 79,000 Utahns switched their party affiliation to vote in the 2020 Republican primary.
The bill would have originally blocked Utah voters from changing their party affiliation from Jan. 1 of a primary election year all the way up until the primary. But the bill was modified to instead stop changes after March 31.
Bramble expressed frustration about former Utah Democratic Party Chairman Jim Dabakis encouraging Democrats to switch affiliation to be able to vote in the primary.
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