Utah on path to end automatic mail ballots after wave of misinformation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Skip to end of carousel Trump presidency Follow live updates on the Trump administration.
57% : In another change, voters must include the last four digits of a driver's license or state ID when they vote by mail.
48% : At a Cabinet meeting last month, Trump decried early voting and mail voting.
28% : A White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the Utah legislation, but Trump for years has called for restrictions far tighter than what officials in the state have embraced.
26% : The overhaul of Utah's voting laws comes four months after Trump won the 2024 election and could foreshadow a spate of new GOP-led voting restrictions across the nation.
26% : The overhaul of Utah's voting laws comes four months after Trump won the 2024 election and could foreshadow a spate of new GOP-led voting restrictions across the nation.
20% : End of carousel In the years after Trump lost the 2020 election, Republican-led states enacted voting restrictions as Trump falsely claimed victory and railed against mail voting and early in-person voting -- even in places where they are popular with his base.

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