Anderson v. Provo City

¶1 Petitioners are residents of Orem City and Provo City seeking to have a referendum placed on the November 2017 ballot. Despite the fact that Petitioners met the signature threshold needed to put a referendum before the voters, both Orem City and Provo City refused. The Cities concluded, in part, that the resolutions could not be referred to the voters as a matter of láw.

¶2 Each set of Petitioners seeks relief in the form of an extraordinary writ ordering that the referenda be placed on the ballot. Petitioners filed their petitions in accordance with a provision of the Utah Election Code…