Cast your eyes around, and tell me what images you see of a voter uprising.
If you think voter turn out in last's primaries might be one, you may be mildly right. Although the voter turnout ratio is not to be released until next week, it is possible the June Primaries brought the best voter turnout in 18 years.
Not since 1992 has a primary in Utah brought 20 percent of the voters to the polls. Now, if 20 percent doesn't sound overly great, I would agree. So, let's not make too much of this particular image of a voter uprising.
If last month's primaries come in with a 20 percent turnout, mark it as the best in 18 years. If they come in with, say 17 percent, it would be the best since 2000, when Glen Davis and Michael Leavitt squared off for the Republican Gubernatorial nomination, and Merrill Cook and Derek Smith battled for nomination in U.S. District 1, and Mark Shurtleff faced someone called Frank Myler for the Republican nomination as Utah attorney general.
A whopping 19 percent turnout, there was that year.
Other images of a voter uprising currently, circa Utah, as opposed to the rest of the land? Bob Bennnett's being booted from office in convention comes to mind, of course. And how about the Republican caucus meetings? Fifty-six thousand voters came out for those, probably a record, and about 20,000 more than normal.
All told, not much of an uprising.
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