Utah lawmakers endorsed a proposed bill criminalizing accessing or disclosing details of how and when specific voters cast their ballots. The bill comes after the Utah County clerk told the Deseret News he tracks how politicians return their ballots.

A panel of Utah lawmakers have given an initial nod to a draft bill that would criminalize accessing and disclosing certain information about how or when individual voters return their ballots. The Government Operations Interim Committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to endorse the first iteration of the legislation,

As he pushed for voters to pay for their own postage for mail-in ballots, the Utah County clerk reportedly checked whether state lawmakers placed stamps on their ballots. Now lawmakers are moving toward making such actions a crime.