Yet another blow against Utahns’ right to vote emerged from the recent session of the state Legislature.

It’s called SB153 and it ends, for no good reason, a provision that some 300,000 Utah voters had taken advantage of to have personal information on their voter registration records be kept confidential.

Now, anyone who can pony up $1,050 can buy a list of Utah voters — even those who had requested that their personal information be kept out of reach. The list includes such personal information as each voter’s mailing address.

Exposing that specific data point to all comers is a serious mistake which the Legislature should correct at its earliest opportunity.

The for-sale list will not include anyone’s Social Security or driver’s license number, phone number or email address. And it certainly will not reveal who or what anyone voted for.

But privacy advocates point out, rightly, that even though the lists are not supposed to be posted online or made searchable — safeguards that seem flimsy at best — many people have reason not to want strangers to be able to match their registration and voting histories with home addresses. The chance for harassment or intimidation is too great, especially in today’s polarized atmosphere.

There are a couple of opt-outs in the bill. Those who have been victims of domestic abuse or otherwise have reason to fear physical violence can ask that their records be scrubbed. So can public officials and law enforcement officers.

In other words, Utah lawmakers are making provisions to benefit themselves that most people can’t access.

The process for requesting that voters’ personal information be kept confidential comes with a compressed timeline. Requests must be made by May 6, and county clerks must decide who qualifies by May 21. The lists become available for purchase May 25.

That’s way too short a time, especially as county election officials are swamped with preparations for primary and general elections.

Political activists and scam artists will be able to compare newly-released voting records with other databases to try to influence, intimidate or cheat many Utahns.

With Republicans from the statehouse to the White House spreading falsehoods about widespread voter fraud, attacking vote-by-mail and threatening to void millions of voter registrations, these new rules can only make people wonder if exercising their sacred right to vote is worth the risk.

Several people have already decided to withdraw their voter registration rather than have their information exposed.

Gov. Spencer Cox, who distinguished himself as a voter advocate when he was lieutenant governor, should have vetoed this bill.

Because he didn’t, it will be up to state and county elections officials, and individual voters, to carefully track what happens under the provisions of this law and be ready to retract the new rules as soon as possible.

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