The petition deadline was March 3rd. If you signed, THANK YOU. If you’d like to know if your signature was recorded, please check here.
4,554 valid signatures representing 16% of total registered Summit County voters are required overall for the petition to be deemed SUFFICIENT. Additionally, we must achieve 16% thresholds in at least 3 out of 4 “voter participation areas.”
All in all, we turned in 6,083 signatures representing more than 21% of Summit County voters. And we achieved more than 20%, 26% and 28% in 3 out of 4 voter participation areas. While Summit County Clerk Eve Furse seeks to invalidate packets 1-30 citing improper binding, we maintain that all packets and signature gathering efforts are compliant with Utah State code.
As of 9am March 13th, the Clerk has recorded 3,174 signatures. We believe this represents all signatures from packets numbered 31-77. This would indicate a signature rejection rate of less than 6%, which is lower than the anticipated rate of rejection we planned for of 10%.
If you signed the petition but do not see your name on the referendum web page, it is possible you signed one of the rejected packets. If you are confident you signed a later packet that has been accepted, however, please let us know at protectsummitcounty@gmail.com so we can help investigate your missing signature.
Though she has 111 days after the signature deadline to make the call, we expect the Clerk to officially declare the petition INSUFFICIENT any day now. When she does, we will pursue legal remedy to reinstate the rejected packets.