<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57153692-90/appointed-council-county-election.html.csp">http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57153692-90/appointed-council-county-election.html.csp</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div id="headline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 7px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 36px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Utah town forgets to hold election — again</div><div id="subHeadline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Wallsburg » New recorder forgot to announce opening of filing period.</div><p class="TEXT_w_Indent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the Wasatch County town of Wallsburg, the city employee responsible for oversight of elections brought new meaning to the job description by overlooking the election altogether.</span></p><p class="TEXT_w_Indent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The new recorder in the town of about 275 just east of Deer Creek Reservoir forgot to announce the opening of the filing period or arrange to hold an election Nov. 5, when voters across the state cast their ballots in municipal elections.</span></p><p class="TEXT_w_Indent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the time the oversight was caught shortly before Election Day, it was too late to field candidates and hold the balloting on the fly.</span></p><p class="TEXT_w_Indent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Wallsburg never advertised or prepared for an election this year, so no one signed up," said Wasatch County Clerk Brent Titcomb. "They’re going to have to appoint the current mayor and council for two more years and they’ll advertise and have people elected [in 2015]."</span></p><p class="TEXT_w_Indent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s actually not the first time Wallsburg forgot to hold an election.</span></p><p class="TEXT_w_Indent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mark Thomas, director of the state elections office, said Wallsburg didn’t schedule an election two years ago, either, and the council members had to be appointed then, as well. Those appointed seats should have been up for election in the November election, but were not, he said.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>