Utah: Governor signs restrictive bill into law
A bill making it easier for Utahns to remove their names from a statewide initiative or referendum petition has been signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert. The bill is largely intended to keep a citizens ethics initiative from ever reaching the ballot. Its critics said the proposal handicaps the initiative process. Utahns for Ethical Government needs to gather 95,000 valid voter signatures from 26 of 29 Senate districts to qualify the ethics initiative for the ballot.