Washington County making switch to mail-in ballots

St. George • One of Utah’s most-populous counties is joining a growing trend toward voting by mail.Washington County will conduct its first election with all mail-in ballots on Nov. 6, The Spectrum newspaper reported .Its 75,000 registered voters in Southern Utah will see ballots appearing in their mailboxes in mid-October.It's a good time to make the switch because the county is facing an expensive overhaul of decade-old voting machines, officials said."We've been dragging our feet a