GOP-dominated Utah embraces mail voting despite party rhetoric

Deidre Henderson watched in surprise as her party waged one attack after another on mail voting in the aftermath of the 2020 election.

For the better part of three years, Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, have repeated claims that mail voting is unsafe and ripe for fraud. GOP leaders took aim at mail voting in state legislatures and the party’s new House majority drafted legislation to rein in the practice.

Only in June did the Republican National Committee launch an official campaign to encourage early voting — including…