While lawmakers approved redesigning Utah’s state flag, opponents are not yet ready to give up the fight and are mobilizing to put the issue to Utah voters, hoping they’ll repeal the new banner.
Referendum backers will need to gather more than 134,000 signatures by April 12 in order ask Utah voters to rebuke the state flag.
“I feel that sometimes legislators stop listening to the citizens that voted them into office. I feel that happened with SB31. They made a mistake. We’re here to remind them of that,” Saunders said in a text message on Wednesday. That’s not the only hurdle they face. Those signatures must include eight percent of the active voters in 15 of Utah’s 29 Senate districts. For comparison, a statewide ballot initiative must reach the eight percent requirement in 26 of the state’s Senate districts.
Sen. Daniel McCay, R-Riverton and his family celebrate passage of SB31, the bill to change Utah’s state flag on the House floor at the Capitol, Mar. 2, 2023. SB31 adopts the redesigned flag as the official flag of Utah and gives three iterations of the current flag “historical” designation.
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