More voting by mail plus a return of Mitt Romney to the ballot helped increase voter turnout in this year’s primary election — but most Utahns still skipped it, officials said Monday as Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox’s office released the final canvass of results.
About “29 percent of the active voters in the state cast a vote in the [June 26] primary. In 2016, it was 24 percent. So overall it was up,” said Justin Lee, director of elections for Cox.
He noted that comparing turnout between primaries is tricky, because not all areas or parties have candidates competing in different years.