How safe are Salt Lake County’s elections?

Ted Hyngstrom, Editor

Ted interviews Sherrie Swensen, Salt Lake County Clerk since 1991. Ms. Swensen describes the many checks in the system to make sure ballots are all legitimate. “The idea that someone could insert a bogus ballot into our process is absolutely impossible.” In her 20+ years in her position, she can only remember one instance of a prosecution for voter fraud, and that person got caught.