Utah’s primary election will be strictly vote-by-mail
“Given the fact that we also have this pandemic going on, and of course the normal
process of having primaries in the summer when people tend to be less attentive to
political races, it’s hard to know what the turnout is going to look like,” University
of Utah political science professor Matthew Burbank said.
Burbank said some voters may end up enjoying the distraction of politics right now, while others may be “consciously not paying close attention to the news because they don’t want to be bombarded with all that information” about the deadly virus.