(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) "It was deeply frustrating and upsetting," said Molly Benson on August, 26, 2020, recalling the hassles of registering to vote in Garfield County in 2018, even after her mother Tina Karlsson, left, warned her that it was going to be challenging. Karlsson faced roadblocks while registering in 2009 after she moved back to the county to live full-time in a house she bought in the early 1990s.
Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.