On March 24, Utah SB 27 was signed into law. Among other things, it makes modest improvements to ballot access. It deletes the requirement that independent presidential candidates must file in person. No other state had had such a law. The new law allows the candidate to choose someone else to file for him or her. In 2008, Gloria La Riva had complained about having to buy an expensive plane ticket just so that her petition and paperwork could be filed by her personally.

Also, the law now has a statutory deadline for independent presidential candidates to file, August 15. The old petition deadline for independent presidential candidates had been accidentally repealed in 1994. This had lead to confusion, since many people believed that the deadline was in March (which is the petition deadline for independent candidates for office other than president). The state had been permitting such independent presidential petitions to be filed as late as September 1, but it is always good to have such deadlines written into the statutes themselves.