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Show Attorney won't press charges on candidate contacted the county attorney's office to seek information regarding regard-ing whether or not charges should be filed against Mr. Tingey for failing fail-ing to turn in the mail-in registration registra-tion cards on time. The county claims that Mr. Tingey was aware of the deadline for turning in the cards prior to the primary, but he has repeatedly said that he was not. In determining that charges would not be filed, Mr. Wilson told the Clipper that "we felt Mr. Tingey Ting-ey was negligent in failing to meet the deadline, but there was nothing criminal or of a criminal-intent about ab-out his actions." The county's top legal official said that the law does not provide a penalty for registrars failing to turn in registrations prior to deadlines. He did say that the next state legislature legisl-ature may look into toughening those laws, however, based on several sev-eral smiliar cases in the past. "Gary Peterson of our office thoroughly investigated this case," Mr. Wilson stated. "The type of offense we'd have to look at to prosecute would be of specific intent to deprive certain voters their rights to vote. In other words, for Mr. Tingey to have done this with criminal intent, we would have had to prove that he knew how certain voters were going to cast their votes, then deliberately kept those voters' registrations from being turned in. We don't believe be-lieve he did either. There is no evidence evi-dence of that." Mr. Tingey has said since the incident in-cident that he is sorry for the error, and pointed out "as a candidate, I would want everyone possible to vote. Why would 1 want to keep potential supporters from casting ballots?" The issue has now apparently been resolved, and Mr. Wilson's office plans no further action. By TOM HARALDSEN Editor FARMINGTON Davis County Coun-ty Attorney Mel Wilson said Friday Fri-day that no charges will be filed against Bountiful businessman and city council candidate Dee Tingey related to voter registration forms that were not turned in prior to last month's primary election. A number of voters had complained com-plained to the county that they had signed registration cards with Mr. Tingey and a number of other members of a tax protestor group, only to find they were not on county coun-ty voting registers when they attempted to vote in the October 6 primary. County recorded Mike Allphin |