With Utah’s Primary Election Day falling on June 25 this year, county clerks began sending mail-in ballots to voters around the state Tuesday.

Ballots in Weber County will include statewide races — i.e. governor/lieutenant governor, attorney general, auditor and state school board — and federal races in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

In-person voting will be held at the Weber Center, located at 2380 Washington Blvd., June 18-21 from noon to 6 p.m. and on Election Day, June 25, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Additionally, ballot drop boxes are located at all of Weber County’s city offices, its county libraries, the Weber Center parking lot and also on campus at Weber State University. Drop boxes are open 24 hours a day and will close promptly at 8 p.m. on Election Day.

Weber County Clerk/Auditor Ricky Hatch told the Standard-Examiner that residents should be on the lookout for their ballots.

“Keep an eye out, and if you don’t get it by the middle of next week, call the elections office and we can spoil that ballot and send a new one,” he said.

Voters also can mail their ballots in. However, Hatch says that the county will not be covering postage, so those who choose to mail their ballots will have to purchase stamps — though, 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. No postage is required for ballots placed in drop boxes.

For more information, go to https://www.weberelections.gov or call 801-399-8034.

Who is on the ballot?

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

U.S. Rep. John 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. However, Curtis, Wilson and Walton qualified for the primary through the gathering of signatures.

Incumbent Rep. Blake Moore is facing electrician Paul Miller — who captured 54.86% of delegate votes at the state convention — for the seat in the 1st Congressional District.

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 qualified for the ballot by gathering signatures. He has received endorsements 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 Hatch are both on the ballot. Neither received an endorsement from the party.

Finally, incumbent Brent Strate of South Ogden and Rod Hall of Layton will square off in Utah State Board of Education District 3. Hall received 75.48% support at the state GOP convention.

There are no primary contests this year for any of Weber County’s open seats in the Utah Legislature — Senate districts 3 and 4, and House districts 6-12 — or for Ogden or Weber school boards. Those races will be determined in November’s general election.

Daily Herald reporter Carlene Coombs contributed to this story.

Newsletter