The Salt Lake County Republican Party is worried voters will see a repeat Tuesday of the long lines that stretched up to four hours on Election Day in 2016 — and that more conservative areas will be most impacted.
Salt Lake County has 43 voting locations this year, GOP Chair Scott Miller said in a letter to Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen on Thursday. And while the more liberal Salt Lake City area has one voting center for every 11,000 registered voters, Riverton has just one center for its entire registered voter population of 21,716.
“Riverton is a strong Republican area and as I look at your file, it appears that voting locations have been strategically placed to better accommodate Democratic voters, while inconveniencing Republican voters on the west side,” Miller wrote in his letter.