SALT LAKE CITY — One group is tens of thousands of signatures away from reaching its goal to let Utahns decide over the state flag on the November ballot.
“It’s not just a flag. It’s about the people’s voice and how we’re not listened to,” said Tracie Halverson with the Are You Listening Yet? political action committee.
The citizen ballot initiative has until Thursday, Feb. 15, to collect 134,000 signatures. As of Tuesday at 9 a.m., the Lieutenant Governor’s Office reports only 80,180 .
Halverson said their numbers are much different.
“We figure we have maybe between 110,000 and 115,000 right now,” she said. “This last week there’s been a huge push, so I’m not sure about those numbers.”
This isn’t the only attempt to bring back the old flag.
In April of last year, a referendum was filed that would leave it up to voters to decide whether they wanted the new flag or not. That failed to gather enough signatures.
This legislative session, Rep. Phil Lyman proposed a bill to repeal the new flag and that failed in committee last week.