Editorial Board: 'The challenge is not only to protect the vote, but to protect the voters, and the vote-counters. It’s a challenge for all of us, public officials and voters alike, to rise to. If we don’t want this year’s election to be our last.'
'I Voted' sticker are available to people who vote at the Salt Lake County complex during primary election day on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.This used to be the easiest, least controversial editorial every newspaper in America would write every other year. The get-out-the-vote editorial.
It was that rare editorial that nobody disagreed with. Or, if they did, no one dared say so out loud.This year, the whole concept of elections, in Utah and across the nation, has become controversial, even dangerous. Utterly phony accusations and rumors of voter fraud or irregularities have metastasized into threats and acts of intimidation designed to keep people from voting or counting the votes.