Letter: Who votes for slavery?
(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) The Utah Coalition to Abolish Slavery kicked off its campaign for Amendment C to remove old wording in the state constitution that they say still allows slavery as a punishment for crime.
By Gerald Elias | The Public Forum
| Nov. 9, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
| Updated: 3:48 p.m.
Can someone please explain to me why 241,702 Utahns voted against removing language from the Utah Constitution that allows the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments? It seems to me that even if 702 had voted against it, that would have been 702 too many.
Gerald Elias, Salt Lake City
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