A judge tossed a lawsuit from a pair of Utah election deniers seeking detailed voting data from the 2020 election.
Lt.. Gov. Henderson’s office also opposed releasing the data, saying it would be used to cast doubt on the 2020 and 2021 elections.
Jen Orten and Sophie Anderson, known online as “The Two Red Pills,” filed suit against Utah, Juab and Millard counties, seeking voting machine data from the 2020 elections. In their lawsuit, Orten and Anderson asked for the “cast vote record” in those counties from the 2020 election, which is a record of when ballots from the election were counted by machine and logged into the system. The duo claimed since Utah law does not explicitly protect those records, they should be made available.
“Plaintiffs persist in suggesting that their GRAMA requests should be granted so they can ‘monitor election officials,’ ‘likely unveil official misconduct,’ expose ‘secrecy,’ and accuse Lt. Governor Henderson of threatening the Defendant Counties. Of course, there is no basis to their accusations,” a subsequent filing from Henderson’s office argued.
before voting to certify the results of the 2022 primary election. Election officials said that information is detailed enough that it could be used to triangulate how some voters cast their ballots, violating Utah’s constitutional guarantee of a secret ballot.