Count My Vote initiative organizers said Wednesday that public hearings persuaded them to shift direction. They now will aim to preserve but simplify a compromise state election law that they helped create in 2014 — instead of pushing a sweeping rewrite.
Initially the group proposed this year to allow candidates to qualify for a primary election solely by collecting voter signatures. They did that to counter ongoing efforts by the Utah Republican Party to junk the new law and restore the traditional caucus-convention system that put the choice of party nominees in the hands of a few thousand delegates.