Judge rejects UT GOPers lawsuit to obtain voter cure list — but another fight is brewing
Utah’s still undecided Republican primary for the 2nd Congressional District got its first test in court Monday — but that doesn’t mean the race is any closer to being resolved.
There’s another fight brewing — this time over potentially hundreds of ballots in southern Utah that weren’t postmarked on time, the day before Election Day, due to delays through the postal service because they’re routed to Las Vegas for processing before returning to clerks.
At issue in court Monday, however, was a conflict between 2nd Congressional District candidate Colby Jenkins and Washington County over whether the clerk there had the right to decline to release the county’s list of “uncured” ballots, which contains the names of voters whose signatures need to be confirmed before their votes can be counted. ...