Utah Prop. 4 repeal drive is at 56% with five days left
Tuesday was brutal for Utah’s Prop. 4 repeal drive. It added just 1,121 new verified signatures, worse than Monday’s 1,174. With only five days remaining to collect and verify signatures, the campaign sits at 56% of the statewide goal for ballot qualification and remains short in 23 state Senate districts where district-level quotas are required.
Utah county clerks have until March 7 to verify signatures, which looks like a three-week cushion beyond the February 15 submission deadline. It isn’t. The extra time does nothing to solve the campaign’s fundamental problem: they aren’t collecting enough signatures.
In fact, because 25–30% of signatures are getting tossed in some counties, organizers need to over-submit. To reach the statewide goal, organizers must submit approximately 17,000 signatures every day until Sunday to offset a 25% rejection rate. That’s roughly a tenfold jump from Tuesday’s pace.
Organizers also have to hit district targets in 26 of Utah’s 29 Senate districts. So far, only three have qualified and SD26 is just 27 signatures shy of becoming the fourth, likely by Wednesday. Another eleven are above 50%.
One Senate district, SD2, went backwards on Tuesday, posting 12 fewer signatures than the day before from people removing their names from petitions. That’s the third time in recent weeks that at least one district had fewer signatures than the day before.
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