SALT LAKE CITY — State Rep. Phil Lyman asked the Utah Supreme Court to prevent the printing of ballots for the November general election pending the outcome of an earlier case in which he asked the justices to kick Gov. Spencer Cox out of office and make Lyman the Republican nominee for governor.
The Blanding Republican has taken his case to the courts since losing the June 25 GOP primary to Cox by more than 37,000 votes. He said Sunday he would run for governor as a write-in candidate. Utah has a law that prevents candidates who have filed a declaration of candidacy from running as an unaffiliated candidate in the same year.
Lyman filed a lawsuit in Utah’s 3rd District Court just a week after the election asking a judge to force election officials to turn over a list of names of people who signed ballot access petitions for Cox. The campaign has cast doubt on the legitimacy of the signatures collected and said it would like to examine the lists.
In a petition to the Utah Supreme Court on Aug. 2, he claimed Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson committed “malfeasance” in allowing Cox on the primary ballot, and he asked that the pair be thrown out of office, that the primary election results be invalidated and that he be named the Republican gubernatorial nominee on the general election ballot.
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Written by BRIDGER BEAL-CVETKO, KSL.com.