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compared with the previous policies — the effects of its decision on straight-ticket voting may likely be felt closer to home.
Those who read the tea leaves in leaders’ talks at the church’s General Conference saw a little space between church and party in an April 2021 talk by President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency. In his talk — which happened, coincidentally or not, at the first General Conference after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — said that defending the Constitution may require members to buck their partisan political affiliation.
Observers of the Latter-day Saint leadership have questioned whether the stance on straight-ticket voting — like its political neutrality policies — is aimed at the faith’s younger members, who are veering away from the GOP. Nobody is expecting Utah’s political landscape to shift from red to blue instantaneously with the church’s iteration of this policy. Republicans have won every statewide election since 1998. The supermajority the GOP holds in the Utah Legislature guarantees that district lines are drawn so that Republican candidates for Congress and the Legislature have an advantage — one thatto the state’s Supreme Court, against accusations of gerrymandering.
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