Utah hasn’t been the typical deep red state when it comes to voting by mail. It’s been an outlier from Republican-controlled states that in recent years have looked to limit mail-in voting, as state leaders here have generally supported its universal vote-by-mail system that remains popular with most Utah voters.

Two controversial election reform bills crammed into one committee hearing passed Tuesday amid concerns from local elections officials.

There’s lots of options for the lieutenant governor to clean up our voter rolls,” House Majority Whip Karianne Lisonbee told her colleagues of her bill to end Utah’s use of ERIC.