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Show Candidate Sues State Of Utali By DICK STUCKI A Bountiful man who has announced his candidacy for the office of stale auditor, au-ditor, has filed suit in f ederal ed-eral Court for Utah. RALPH OLMO, after informing in-forming the state attorney general and the secretary of slate, filed suit in the United Un-ited States District Court challenging the constitutionality constitu-tionality of the durational residency requirement of running for the office of stale auditor. The current durational residency requirement says that a candidalc must have lived in the state for the five years immediately preceding preced-ing an election. MR. OLMO has lived in Ulah for four years and five months, and poinls out that there arc only eight other slates that have any durational dura-tional residency requirement require-ment at all for the office of slate auditor. Mr. Olmo says that since auditing standards and accounting principles are basically the same all over the United States, CPA's should he able to run for the office without any durational dura-tional residency requirements. require-ments. THE CASE will be heard in federal court before Judiie Bruce Jenkins on April 22, 1980. to determine the rules of constitutionality. |