But Joe Demma, spokesman for the Lieutenant Governor's Office, said even if the group had not issued the retraction, they still would have been within the law.

"It sounds to me like a normal voter ID effort that occurs in many campaigns," said Demma. "If people are in fact paying people to vote a certain way or paying people to induce someone to vote a certain way, then we get into serious problems. But if you are just paying someone to go out and identify voters, then I see no problem with that and neither does the law."

But voucher opponents say it's a shame that voucher supporters felt they needed to pay for secured votes.

"This is the latest in a long line of examples of deceptive tactics on the pro-voucher side ... and another distraction from the real issue," said Lisa Johnson, spokeswoman for the anti-voucher Utahns for Public Schools.

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