ACTION: Call the governnor to veto HB 242

URGENT - CALL the Governor on MONDAY  🚨

SNEAK ATTACK ON our rights from Utah GOP

Lawmakers in the last minute of the Utah legislature passed HB 242 out of both chambers at 11pm Friday, March 6th to take effect immediately upon the governors signature. 

This bill changes the rules around initiative and referendum petitions, including how signatures are verified and how signature removal statements are handled.

1. they are making it NOT illegal to sign for someone else without their consent. The protections for people’s consent is seriously under attack. {this cannot be legal, can it?}

2. The bill makes removing your signature harder by making pre-paid postage illegal. If a stamp is pre-paid postage, then voters must go to the county clerk’s office in person to remove their name from a petition. 

3. Date errors-- The bill says signatures can’t be rejected solely because the date has a one-year error.   which many believe relates to the large number of signatures (over 2000) that suddenly appeared this week in Davis County connected to the Prop 4 petition.

We are in the thick of the initiative to repeal the prop 4 petition with verifications and removals still being processed. Utahns deserve election rules that are clear, consistent, and not shifting midstream based on the whims of our Legislature. 

HB242 undermines trust regardless of which side someone is on.

Please contact the Governor’s office and ask that he veto HB 242 before it becomes law.  It can be as simple as giving your name and saying "please veto HB 242"

Cox needs to hear the voice of the people on this issue.  Let's flood his phone lines.

📞 Governor’s Office: 801-538-1000

🕒 8AM-5PM"

There is no voicemail but you can also flood his inbox at 

https://governor.utah.gov/contact/

MORe info:

At 11:19 last night the state legislature, on its last day in session, passed HB 242, that will make signature removal HARDER on ballot initiatives AND make it ok to sign a petition for someone else.

Why did they do this ?  The effort to stop the petition to try to repeal the fair boundaries process may be working, and the Republican dark money funded legislature does not want real competition in Utah.  The bill makes it illegal to mail a removal form to the county clerk offices, makes it ok to sign a petition for someone else, and makes it ok to have errors on the signature packets.

BURRN – Brave Utahns Rapid Response Network, has been working tirelessly to keep the ballot initiative from getting on the ballot, and we are working this weekend to guide people to remove their signatures if they want.

 

We are in the thick of the initiative to repeal the prop 4 petition with verifications and removals still being processed. Utahns deserve election rules that are clear, consistent, and not shifting midstream based on the whims of our Legislature. HB242 undermines trust regardless of which side someone is on.

 

Please contact the Governor’s office and ask that he veto HB 242 before it becomes law.  It can be as simple as giving your name and saying "please veto HB 242"

 

Cox needs to hear the voice of the people on this issue.  Let's flood his phone lines.

📞 Governor’s Office: 801-538-1000

🕒 8AM-5PM