By state law, the
Legislators in each of the counties represented as well as the county
commissioners, etc. are to be invited to attend the public meeting for
the Count My Vote initiative.
The Count My Vote group has
scheduled the two meetings representing the Bear River region - Box
Elder, Cache or Rich County along with the Mountain region - Summit,
Utah or Wasatch County during monthly Legislature Interim Session.
This month the Legislature Interim Session includes a special session
called by the Governor of Utah to fund the National Parks staying open,
keeping our rural economies alive and also to provide funding for the
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
(WIC).
The Count My Vote has complained that not everyone can
attend their neighborhood elections, and so they have scheduled 4 of their
7 public statewide meetings at noon during the week with 2 of those
during a Special Session of the Legislature.
They also scheduled 2 of the required regional public meetings during UEA, so they don't seem to want the UEA teachers or their invited parents to attend their Count My Vote public meetings.
http://www.elections.utah.gov/Media/Default/Initiatives/Notice%20of%20Public%20Hearings.pdf
Update2: It appears the meetings are not cancelled.
Update:
It appears they have seen the light and cancelled the the notice of the 7 public meetings.
http://www.utah.gov/pmn/sitemap/notice/183017.html
Fair Elections Utah Working to improve, but not gut, our neighborhood election caucus system. The Caucus System in Utah is the best way to make sure a grass roots process can work over large amounts of money. It is the only way someone with $100,000 can go against someone with $2,000,000 in election funds. We had a system that did NOT favor the incumbent, wealthy or famous. This was a good thing. SB 54 made things bad. The New Count My Vote is worse.
