As candidates began lining up Thursday to gather signatures to make it on the 2019 ballot, the Utah Republican Party said it will continue to ignore a possibly illegal party bylaw that calls for revoking GOP membership of any candidate collecting signatures.
Utah Republican Party Chairman Derek Brown said the bylaw is superseded by state law, which allows partisan candidates the option of collecting signatures, earning the support of party delegates at convention, or a combination of both routes in order to appear on a primary ballot.
“As a party that’s what we’re going to do,” Brown said.