Mail-in primary ballots go out Tuesday. Here’s who’s running and how to vote in Utah County (2024)

Mail-in ballots for the primary election will be sent out to voters throughout the state Tuesday.

In Utah County, ballots will include various seats for the state Legislature, state and local school boards, statewide races and Utah’s 3rd Congressional District.

This year, Utah County will not provide prepaid postage in an effort to save money and encourage other voting methods,County Clerk Aaron Davidson previously told the Daily Herald.

The U.S. Postal Service still delivers ballots even without postage and will later attempt to collect postage costs from the appropriate board of elections, such as a county clerk’s office.

Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by June 24, the day before the primary election, or placed in a drop box by 8 p.m. June 25.

Early in-person voting will be offered at the Utah County Elections Office in Provo from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 18-21 and June 24.

Election Day in-person voting June 25 will be open in 10 different locations throughout the county and 18 drop boxes are available in the county, all of which can be found on vote.utah.gov.

Utah County also offers “fast cast voting,” which allows voters to fill out their mail-in ballot at home, bring it into a voting location with their photo ID and have it tabulated there.

Who is on the ballot?

In Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, which runs from Provo to Vernal to Blanding, five Republican candidates are on the primary ballot vying to replace current Rep. John Curtis, who is now running for U.S. Senate.

Those candidates include current state Sen. Mike Kennedy, Roosevelt Mayor JR Bird, businessman Case Lawerence, current State Auditor John Dougall and former Utah County GOP Chair Stewart Peay.

At the state GOP convention, Kennedy received the party endorsem*nt with 61.5% of the delegate vote. The remaining four candidates gathered signatures to be placed on the ballot.

Four Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate seat, left open with Sen. Mitt Romney retiring at the end of his term, made it to the ballot.

Curtis, Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs, former Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson and businessman Jason Walton all will be on the ballot this month.

Staggs received the GOP nomination at April’s state convention, with 69% of delegates voting to nominate him.

In the race for governor, incumbent Gov. Spencer Cox is facing current state Rep. Phil Lyman in the primary after the state lawmaker received the nomination at the convention.

Cox will be running alongside current Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, while Lyman’s running mate is Natalie Clawson, a Brigham Young University law graduate and sponsor of the Secure Vote Utah ballot initiative to move Utah back to mostly in-person voting instead of mail-in ballots.

Lyman’s original pick for lieutenant governor, Layne Bangerter, was deemed ineligible for the race for not meeting residency requirements in Utah’s constitution, the Deseret News reported.

The race for Utah attorney general contains three Republican candidates — former Utah GOP Chair Derek Brown, Frank Mylar and Rachel Terry.

No candidate received the required 60% vote total at convention for the nomination with Terry receiving 40.24% and Mylar getting 59.76% of delegate support.

Brown has received endorsem*nts from Cox, former Gov. Gary Herbert and U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, according to KSL.

Recently, former attorney general candidate Trent Christensen accused Mylar of promising him a position in the office if Christensen was to endorse him in the race. Mylar told the Deseret News that he quickly retracted the statement after realizing its implications, though Christensen reportedly later filed a police report regarding the matter.

For state auditor, Republicans Tina Cannon and Weber County Clerk/Auditor Ricky Hatch are both on the ballot. Neither received an endorsem*nt from the party.

Three state Legislature races in Utah County garnered more than one Republican candidate — State House districts 61 and 58 and State Senate District 22.

Senate District 24, currently held by outgoing Sen. Curt Bramble, became uncontested in the GOP primary after former state Sen. Dan Hemmert dropped out of the race, leaving state Rep. Keven Stratton as the sole Republican.

In House District 61, which is held by Rep. Marsha Judkins, who is not pursuing reelection, Provo City Councilman Travis Hoban and Lisa Shepherd, current senior policy advisor for County Commissioner Tom Sakievich, will be vying for the seat.

Shepherd received the party nomination during the county convention in April, with Hoban gathering signatures.

In House District 58, Holly Sweeten, a staffer for U.S Rep. Burgess Owens, and David Shallenbergber are on the ballot, with neither receiving 60% at the county convention to gather a nomination.

In the state Senate, incumbent Sen. Heidi Balderree, representing Senate District 22, is facing two primary challengers this year.

Balderree first took office last October during a special GOP caucus election after then-Sen. Jake Andregg resigned.

The incumbent senator faces Emily Lockhart, daughter of former Utah House Speaker Becky Lockart, and Garrett Cammans, both of whom ran for the office during the party’s special election.

Two Utah State Board of Education races, which are partisan, have more than one Republican running.

In District 10, which contains Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs, Republican candidates include Monica Wilbur and incumbent Matt Hymas.

Wilbur is supported by current state school board member Natalie Cline, who lost her reelection bid at the Salt Lake County GOP Convention after she came under fire this year for posting a photo of a teenage athlete and falsely implying she was transgender, leading to a slew of online attacks against the girl.

Candidates for District 13, which contains Provo and Nebo school districts, are Cari Bartholemew and incumbent Randy Boothe. A third candidate, Alyson Robertson, withdrew from the race after the county convention.

Local school board races are nonpartisan, but races with more than two candidates get a primary to narrow down candidates for the general election.

In Nebo school board District 7, the candidates are B. Scott Wilson, Jason Slack and Carma Heimuli, and in Alpine school board District 5, incumbent Mark Clement is facing Alicia Alba, John Gadd and Tracy McMillian.

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