SJR5: Constitutional Amendment to Change School Board from Election to Appointment
This bill passed the Senate 24-5 but was not considered in the House. Libertas Institute opposes this bill. Legislation in years past, and in this session as well, has sought to alter the process by which candidates for the Utah...
SB104: Partisan State and Local School Boards
This bill passed the Senate 19-8 and failed the House 31-43. Libertas Institute supports this bill. See the update below. In years past, legislators have attempted, unsuccessfully, to modify the nomination process and structure...
SB43: Closed Primaries, Attacking the “Count My Vote” Compromise
To track the status of this bill, find it on our Legislation Tracker. Click here to contact the sponsor of the bill to share your thoughts, or click here to email your Senator and Representative about it. Libertas Institute...
Study: Americans Have No Voice in their Government
A new study, authored by two university professors, find that corporate interests and wealthy individuals control policy making so much that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule,...
Why Utah Should Allow Recall Elections
The following op-ed written by our policy analyst, Josh Daniels, was published in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. Utah needs a recall election system. Governments “of the people” must have sufficient means for...
State School Board Candidate Stopped in Her Tracks
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly-edited transcription of an interview with Kimberlie Kehrer, former state school board candidate whose candidacy was terminated by an arbitrary process before she could appeal to...