For Salt Lake County Republicans, warnings of voter fraud came from inside the party on Saturday. The vote to nominate a GOP candidate for Salt Lake County Clerk was marred when a pair of delegates were caught attempting to vote more than once, with one extra vote making it into a ballot box at Saturday’s county nominating convention.
The extra vote did not impact the outcome, as Goud Maragani easily won the nod from delegates over Nancy Lord. After the two cheaters were caught, the remaining delegates voted to expel them from their positions within the party. Republican officials said they planned to press charges, but it’s unclear what laws may have been broken since Saturday’s vote was conducted as part of a private organization and not a governmental entity.
Saturday’s attempted ballot box stuffing at the Republican convention was more election fraud than has been proven in Utah’s entire 2020 election.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) With “election integrity” driving much of the day, arising from Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, GOP delegates opt to hold the vote for Salt Lake County clerk by paper ballot during the Salt Lake County Republican convention at Kearns High School on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
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