Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Just for Laughs?

The Salt Lake County Clerk's Office may still be getting the bugs out of its elections operation, even though the primary election is today.

Republican District Attorney candidate Lohra Miller logged onto the Clerk's Web site earlier to find out the polling location to cast her vote. Once she plugged in her address, she received a curt notice that there is no election in her area, so she is ineligible to vote until the next election.

Funny. Miller lives in Salt Lake County, and she lives in the 3rd Congressional District and — guess what? — there is a primary between incumbent Republican Chris Cannon and GOP challenger John Jacob.

Not only that, but there also is a Republican primary for county sheriff, between incumbent Aaron Kennard and challenger Brent Cardall. And she certainly is eligible to vote in that race. She's even a registered Republican.

Maybe, since County Clerk Sherrie Swensen is a Democrat, they didn't count Republican primaries.

Cheers,
Paul Rolly

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Paul Rolly grew up in Salt Lake City, graduating from Skyline High School and earning a B.S. in political science at the University of Utah. He began working at The Salt Lake Tribune in 1973 as a copy boy. He worked his way up the ladder, covering police, local government, community affairs and business. He left The Tribune in 1982 to work for United Press International where he was the Utah political reporter and later Salt Lake City bureau chief. He returned to the Tribune in 1985, covering the Utah Legislature and later, taking over as business editor. He began the Rolly&Wells column in 2001 with JoAnn Wells and continues the column alone since her retirement. He also writes a political column that runs in The Tribune's Sunday opinion section. He is married to Dawn House, a reporter at The Tribune.

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