Show sheriff vote legal ugal says attorney general Ellmin aton of one of the sheriffs candidates in the uintah county democratic primary convention wax was within legal bounds according to E R callister Cal lliter attorney general the opinion of the attorney general was sought by one of the du delegates legates to the convention as asking answers to two questions 1 whether the voting itself was degl 1 and 2 whether or not the delegates were properly chosen to serve at the convention ven tion on the tint first ballot to nominate two of three sheriff candidates the vote was 5 4 4 whereupon the high man harold twitchell was declared nom nominated ina teo an and all 13 deeba delegates tea ballo balloted age again on the tile second eon d primma primary root t which ich was won by marr culdwell e in answer to the complaint that five of the delegates voted for iwo two candida candidates tm abst atty gen 11 R waldo jr said the election law permit permits conventions to formulate their own rules and the tie breaking procedure used in uintah was not unreasonable under the circum stane stances ex continued on pago page 6 0 SHERIFF VOTE LEGAL continued from page 1 ansome in some districts no one how show ed up for the scheduled mass meetings where upon certain absentees were designated as delegates and the question arose as to whether the vacancies should not have been fil filled led instead 3 by the county central C committee ommittee the average age of 0 a member of congress Is 13 53 |