{"id":4538,"date":"2021-06-25T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:41:10","slug":"how-utah-balances-ballot-access-and-election-security-a-qa-with-amelia-powers-gardner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/how-utah-balances-ballot-access-and-election-security-a-qa-with-amelia-powers-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"How Utah balances ballot access and election security: A Q&#038;A with Amelia Powers Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"284\" data-attachment-id=\"4514\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/georgias-election-law-and-voter-suppression-a-qa-with-ilya-shapiro\/kosar-election-series-banner-final\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,284\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final-300x83.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final-768x213.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By all accounts, Utah ran its 2020 elections very well, avoiding the political acrimony and lawsuits that have occurred in Arizona and some other states. Utah\u2019s election policies enable ease of access to ballot while maintaining high security. How did Utah strike this balance? To answer this question, I spoke with Amelia Powers Gardner&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/how-utah-balances-ballot-access-and-election-security-a-qa-with-amelia-powers-gardner\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all accounts, Utah ran its 2020 elections very well, avoiding the political acrimony and lawsuits that have occurred in Arizona and some other states. Utah\u2019s election policies enable ease of access to ballot while maintaining high security. How did Utah strike this balance? To answer this question, I spoke with Amelia Powers Gardner&#8230;.(Read more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1bc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4539,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}