Voters attempt to navigate long lines to participate in Republican caucuses and a presidential preference poll at Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (Kyle Dunphey/Utah News Dispatch)
For the second time in less than a month, Utah lawmakers on Wednesday yanked from a legislative committee agenda a discussion of the Utah Republican Party’s chaotic presidential preference poll on Super Tuesday in March.
After previously being rescheduled from the Government Operations Interim Committee’s Aug. 21 meeting amid pressure from Republican party leadership, the committee’s Senate chair Sen. Dan Thatcher, R-West Valley City, put the discussion at the top of Wednesday’s agenda with a full slate of presenters who showed up to the meeting expecting to discuss issues that left many Utah Republican Party members feeling frustrated and, in some cases, disenfranchised due to long lines, technical difficulties and problematic access for people with disabilities.