PROVO — Instructions for voters in Utah County are causing confusion and uncertainty just two weeks before Election Day.
The issue stems from an instruction pamphlet that arrived with ballots across Utah County. When Highland resident Liz Rice opened it, she said it was “very confusing.”
The instructions warn that failing to provide the last four digits of a Utah driver license or state identification card number — or a social security card number — could result in that ballot “not being counted.”
“And yet,” Rice pointed out, “there was no place on the ballot to put that.”
Rice, who is both a candidate for office and a voter, said she has been “bombarded” with calls from other people who are also uncertain about the instructions. Janell Tuttle, who lives in Provo, had the same question