Utah Leadership—Hypocrisy & Corruption: The Modus Operandi of Elected Officials? By HMM Fry Over the past several months, the ‘powers that be’ in Utah have, with an audacity comparable to the players in Washington DC, demonstrated a troubling inconsistency in their application of the law that reveals remarkable impunity.   First, they denied Layne Bangerter’s candidacy for Lieutenant Governor, claiming he did not meet the  “letter of the law” requirements. Meanwhile, they continue to promote Governor Cox as a legitimate candidate, despite clear evidence that he too failed to meet the “letter of the law” by collecting the proper amount of signatures within the time required to secure a spot on the ballot for the Utah Republican Primary. Furthermore, they have ignored the Utah GOP bylaw stating that any candidate who secures 60% at the convention advances to the general election, while still validating Cox’s candidacy after he fell short on convention votes AND signatures. In the judicial arena, they adhered to a ruling from the Utah State Supreme Court that invalidated Constitutional Amendments A & D, rendering votes on these measures meaningless. Yet they assert that votes for Cox will count, even though his candidacy has now been proven invalid. They claimed adherence to the “letter of the law” as the justification for invalidating over 1,200 ballots for Colby Jenkins—not due to late mailing, but because of postal errors and questionable routing of Utah ballots through Las Vegas. However, they overlook the insufficient signatures for Cox due to “human error”