A legislative audit found several issues with election administration in Piute and Wayne counties during the 2024 election ...

Election officials in two southern Utah counties failed to comply with state law and put the integrity of multiple elections ...

Yet parts of southern and central Utah led the field in percentage growth. Piute County gained 57 residents, a 3.7% increase, to top Juab County’s 3.4% increase after it gained 437 new residents.

Auditors noted that Piute County officials violated chain of custody requirements for ballots by having only one election worker processing ballots at a time and that the county did not ...