Tribune Editorial: Why Revealing Voters’ Home Addresses Could Spell Trouble

Tribune Editorial: Why revealing voters’ home addresses could spell trouble

Yet another blow against Utahns’ right to vote emerged from the recent session of the state Legislature. It’s called SB153 and it ends, for no good reason, a provision that some 300,000 Utah voters had taken advantage of to have personal information on their voter registration records be kept confidential.

Some Utah voters weigh unregistering because of new law lifting certain privacy protections

This article was originally written by Katie McKellar for Utah News Dispatch When David Yoder — a registered Utah voter living in South Jordan — got a letter from the lieutenant governor’s office earlier this month notifying of changes to Utah’s voter privacy law, he said he was left “fed up and frustrated.” As an IT worker, Yoder told Utah News Dispatch he’s “very protective of my privacy,” and he knows how information like names and addresses …