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Longtime Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen bids farewell to the buzz of election night

When her career wraps in January, this longtime guardian of democracy will have clocked 32 years of public service, steered scores of elections and overseen the counting of millions of votes.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen phones polling places as she walks the corridors of the ballot-counting headquarters marked with yellow tape to show observers where they are allowed to stand, as she oversees her last election at the Salt Lake County Government Center on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.