Voter Authentication Options

Last updated: 12/3/2025 Still subject to change.

For a One-Person, One Vote process, voters can use any of the following authentication methods:

I. Main Recommended Method: Postal Invitation

Use your custom Vote Invitation received through postal mail.

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Envelope invitationVote letter front

Manually enter your unique Voter Code, or scan the QR code to access the vote page.

Designed to handle up to 63,000 voters.

II. Remote Backup Method

This is in case your mailer didn't arrive, was lost, or you need to cancel your first vote.

If any of these problems arise, you can still cast a Provisional Ballot via 11.siv.org/vote.


After making your selections, you will be prompted to provide the following:

  1. an email address, to follow-up if there's trouble processing your ballot
  2. your name + address + birthday combo, as it appears in the state voter registration records.

And then complete one of these second-factor checks:

  • a) SMS verification — this requires a valid non-VoIP phone number, with Caller ID matching your name (works for about ~50% of voters)
  • b) Creating a digital signature of your valid passport, using a phone's NFC reader

Designed to handle voters who lost their mailer, or who updated their voter registration status after mailers went out. Estimated not more than 1,000 voters.

III. In-Person Backup Method

SIV digital ballots are designed to allow you, the voter, to see for yourself that your vote was counted correctly.

Nonetheless, if you strongly want to vote on a paper ballot, don't have a digital device to vote with, or need hands-on support with the voting process, we aim to have backup In-Person Voting locations available too:

  • Tues 12/9: Eagle Mountain location
  • Wed 12/10: Tooele location
  • Thurs 12/11: 3 locations: Eagle Mountain, Tooele, and SL County

Exact locations & hours still to be announced.

Bring a valid photo ID with you.

This is capacity constrained, and not designed to handle more than 30 voters per location per hour.

Preserving Full Auditability

To protect the election against ballot stuffing and other fraud:

No matter which method a voter uses, these Voter Authentication Methods are designed so that even after results are announced, every vote's eligibility can still be justified via auditing.


'Inactive' voters will not be mailed Postal Invitations, but can still vote using one of the backup methods

Of the 71,526 registered voters in the district's official voter roll, 9,789 are marked as inactive, the other 61,737 as active.

You can check your status here: https://votesearch.utah.gov/voter-search/search/search-by-voter/voter-info

For this vote, we will follow the state's policy of not mailing ballots to inactive voters.

From https://vote.utah.gov/safe/voter-registration-safeguards/:

What if voters move without updating their address?

Records are automatically updated when a voter obtains or renews their driver's license or when they change their driver's license address. Election offices use the National Change of Address database to identify voters who have moved. They inactivate voters who have not updated their address or who had mail returned as undeliverable. Inactive voters are notified that they must verify or update their address before receiving a ballot. Ballots are mailed only to active voters.

Inactive voter can still cast a provisional remote ballot (Option II above) or in-person (Option III).


For questions, contact 11chooses@siv.org