Important: Before gathering signatures, please read the 2-page Instructions for Signature Gatherers. Note in particular that (1) you must ask each signer “Would you like a sticker with more information?”; (2) if any signer adds their email address next to their signature, you must email us immediately at info@DarnAir.org with the signer's email address so that [...]

Here's a $7,500 budget for printed materials, including JPGs (and links to PDFs) of the latest draft of printed materials. Click on each image for a larger size JPG.   Bumper sticker (scales to 9.5" by 2.5"): $500 for 1,000 ($0.50 each). PDF. [Update: In hindsight these weren't really all that necessary or useful. People [...]

Hello friends: This is our second email blast (you can comment or see previous posts on our blog) so read on and please share widely! Final legal language submitted We submitted our final legal language last Friday, May 17. (Whew! It should show up soon on the Lt Gov's website, but for now here's an [...]

We submitted our final ballot language on Friday May 17. It should show up soon on the Lt Gov's website, but for now here's an unofficial link. Major changes include: increasing clean air funding from $75m to $100m a year and rural economic development funding from $25m to $50m a year; tweaking the effective dates [...]

Copied below is our first email blast. If you didn't get it and you want to get future email blasts, please sign up! Hello friends: This is our first email blast, so there's lots of news. Read on and please share widely! The story so far Our grassroots group decided to file a ballot measure [...]

HB 145 (passed in 2019) modified the ballot measure process in Utah by creating a rolling window for signature submissions and for signature removals. This should make the process more fair by providing supporters of a ballot measure with a guaranteed path to the ballot: with enough early signatures, supporters can likely avoid a Count My [...]

Part 1: Preliminaries (6-8 weeks from date of filing, i.e., from early April until May or June) The initiative process starts with having 5 Utah voters sign a notarized application and then submitting that application to the Lieutenant Governor together with ballot language and various other statements. To maximize the signature-gathering window that should happen [...]

Update May 9: Here's the Fiscal Impact Statement, and here are the recordings of the seven public hearings. (We tried to record each hearing with two devices, so you may see multiple listings for each hearing.)  As required by state law, we'll be holding seven hearings around the state after the Fiscal Impact Statement is [...]