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Utah House Speaker takes aim at mail-in voting after audit finds two instances of dead voters.

Utah can't even win when it's winning.

Miss: The Voting Dead Utah can't even win when it's winning. Take our election system, for example. There was righteous indignation over a recent legislative audit that suggested dead people had been voting. Well, it didn't actually say that. It said two—count them, two!

—dead people voted. Of course, dead people can't vote, but the audit did find that voter rolls contained 1,400 deceased voters, of which two mailed ballots apparently were cast. Maybe it was a mistake or maybe deliberate, but do the math. Of the 1,400 deceased, 700 were marked as active voters and sent ballots.

Two ballots were…

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