New data indicate that one of every four Utah adults is not registered to vote this election year. The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday released estimates of the voting-age population of each state — showing 1.94 million Utahns are old enough to vote this year. (For more information, click here.)
Meanwhile, records maintained by Lt. Gov. Greg Bell’s office show that 1.47 million Utahns are registered to vote, or just 76 percent of all adults in the state. That means about 464,000 Utah adults are not registered to vote, or 2.5 times the population of Salt Lake City, the state’s largest. Also of note in 2010 elections, only one of three Utahns old enough to vote actually did — the second-lowest turnout among the states. Salt Lake Tribune
