Utah Code 20A-2-503. County clerk’s responsibilities — Updating voter registration

20A-2-503. County clerk’s responsibilities — Updating voter registration.

(1)

Terms Used In Utah Code 20A-2-503

Annual maintenance utility: means a tool within the system that:

(a)	is designed to comply with Section 20A-2-504;

(b)	a county clerk is required to run on an annual basis; and

(c)

identifies each inactive voter and each voter to be removed from the voter registration database. See Utah Code 20A-2-501

Duplicate voter utility: means a tool within the system that runs a set of queries to identify potential duplicate voter records. See Utah Code 20A-2-501

Election: means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal primary election, and a special district election. See Utah Code 20A-1-102

Regular general election: means the election held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year for the purposes established in Section 20A-1-201. See Utah Code 20A-1-102

System: means the statewide voter registration system described in Subsection 20A-2-502(1)(a), including the database and all information within the system or database. See Utah Code 20A-2-501

Voter: means an individual who:

(a)	meets the requirements for voting in an election;

(b)	meets the requirements of election registration;

(c)	is registered to vote; and

(d)	is listed in the official register book. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Voter identification verification tool: means a tool within the system that compares data in a voter registration record to Driver License Division data and Social Security Administration data to verify voter identification. See Utah Code 20A-2-501
(a)	Each county clerk shall use the system to record or modify all voter registration records.

(b)

A county clerk shall:

(i)	at the time the county clerk enters a voter registration record into the system, run the system’s voter identification verification tool in relation to the record; and

(ii)	in accordance with rules made under Section 20A-2-507, regularly report to the lieutenant governor the information described in Subsection 20A-2-502(4).

(2)	A county clerk who receives notification from the lieutenant governor, as provided in Subsection 20A-2-502(1)(e), of a change in a registered voter’s principal place of residence or name may verify the change with the registered voter.

(3)

Unless the county clerk verifies that a change described in Subsection (2) is incorrect, the county clerk shall:

(a)	change the voter registration record to show the registered voter’s current name and address; and

(b)	notify the registered voter of the change to the voter registration record.

(4)

A county clerk shall, in accordance with rules made under Section 20A-2-507:

(a)	on at least a monthly basis, run the duplicate voter utility and take the action required to resolve potential duplicate data identified by the utility; and

(b)	every December, run the annual maintenance utility.

(5)

(a)

If a voter does not vote in any election during the period beginning on the date of any regular general election and ending on the day after the date of the next regular general election, and the county clerk has not sent the voter a notice described in Section 20A-2-505 during the period, the county clerk shall, within 14 days after the day on which the county clerk runs the annual maintenance utility, send to the voter a preaddressed return form in substantially the following form:
“VOTER REGISTRATION ADDRESS”
To ensure the address on your voter registration is correct, please complete and return this form if your address has changed. What is your current street address?
____________________________________________________________________________
Street City County State ZIP
___________________________
Signature of Voter

(b)	The county clerk shall mail the form described in Subsection (5)(a) with a postal service that will notify the county clerk if the voter has changed the voter’s address.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 297, 2023 General Session

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