New Utah Party Argues State Unfairly Barring It From Special Election

The lawyer for Jim Bennett and his new United Utah Party argued in federal court Friday that unreasonable state rules would have required them to magically read minds in order to qualify for a special election to replace Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Only by foreseeing months early that Chaffetz would resign could UUP have met state deadlines, argued attorney David Sells. “If what one has to do to get on the ballot is be a soothsayer,” Sells told a Salt Lake City courtroom, “that is a pretty high b... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>

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