Show new state election laws needed urge county clerks through utah the tumult and the shooting in dies after the election but county clerks throughout utah have some strong ions on improvements for fu ture elections to make things easier for thim and the judg es among the suggested needs were I 1 removal of local school board elections from the gen eral ballot the board eloc elec eions should be conducted by the school districts on dates apart from general or primary elections 2 standardization of fees paid to election judges some counties pay judges on a flat fee basis basil only others pay a flat fee plus overtime 3 legal means of preventing political parties from promulgating mul gating ballot marking instructions several clerks said instructions published in paid political advertisements only served to confuse voters and in some instances tile the instruct eions were erroneous 4 A more foolproof method of determining whether voters are properly registered in eluding a clearer definition of a resident the law also should require district election judges to put challena chal leng ed votes in separate ballot boxes 5 appointment of district election judges on bast badts 19 of qualification rather than poll heal affiliation the proposed use of voting machines met a varied lion generally along rural urban lines while chile most county clerks in predominantly rural areas said they did not need the na ina chines several hereof were of tile the opinion that two or more districts could be combined if voting ina chines were utilized in urban counties clerks were divided over ilie the machines merits davis carbon thoele tooele arid and salt lake county clerks generally favor the use of voting botin machines weber and utah county clerks were opposed lawrence W malan weber county clerk said the ma chipes were too expensive and would require a bond issue assue in order to purchase them in ad dicion storage space would be required since the machin es are arc generally too bulky to move about easily the problem ot of election judges evoked criticism from many county clerks J emerson staples summit county clerk suggested that tile the luw be arn amended ended to provide boll boi counting and receiving judges in voting its dia with less than vot ers present utah statutes allow two sets set of judges only in those districts in which or more votes were cast for gov arnor in the last or preceding clec election tion in fit districts with to voters judges must act as both receiving atil and counting officials official thus ballot counti counting tig can riot not begin until the polls tire are closed because of the law these districts are generally tile the basl las to complete their vote counts several clerks pointed out although tile lie law jimila election judge tees fees to riot not more than 10 several counties pay overtime to judges |