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Show TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION make no provision for absent-voter absent-voter ballots. However, at no ' place in the school election laws could we find a provision that PROHIBITS absent voter ballots. bal-lots. There is a section which states, in effect, "So far as applicable ap-plicable the general election laws shall apply" to school board elections. It would seem , that that section should permit ! absent voter ballots. We have urged the Board of Education to seek an immediate opinion from the attorney general, gen-eral, hoping- to be able to use absent voter ballots in Monday's Mon-day's school mill levy election. We believe it possible that Attorney At-torney General Callister might interpret the law a little differently differ-ently than the 1944 attorney' general. If our attorney general still feels that the school election laws, as written, prohibit the use of absent voter ballots, then certainly these voters who were deprived of their right to vote should petition the 1957 legislature legisla-ture for a change in the school election voting laws. More than 180 years ago the American Colonists fought a war with England, and one of the issues was Taxation Without With-out Representation. Today, in Utah, we have taxation without representation and no one seems to give a hang about it. According to Utah law, and a 1944 opinion from the attorney general's office, in "school board elections" (and according to the Beaver County Board of Education that includes school bond elections and school tax levy elections) absent voter ballots bal-lots are not permitted. So, so far as scores of Milford Union Pacific employees are concerned, they have no voice in the matter. Their neighbors can vote a tax upon them while they are denied the right to say they want it or don't want it. Their employment takes them to Las Vegas or Provo or Salt Lake during the voting hours, and either they lay off and lose up to $90 in wages, or they pass up their right to say whether or not they want to have their taxes increased for the support of the schools. And even if they were willing to lay off for the purpose of voting, they can't all lay off the railroad still has to move freight and passengers on schedule. So, these Union Pacific employes em-ployes are victims of "taxation without representation" and there teems to be nothing they can do about it. The school election statutes |