Some Utah Republicans are furious after learning Celeste Maloy was an inactive voter in Utah, with one mulling a lawsuit to challenge Maloy's convention win on Saturday.
in Delta. The controversy has at least one of the candidates defeated by Maloy contemplating a lawsuit over the situation.from Congress, citing his wife’s ongoing health concerns. Maloy, until recently a staffer for Stewart, was one of nearly a dozen Republicans who filed to run in the special election to succeed her former boss. She narrowly edged out former House Speaker Greg Hughes on Saturday’s fifth and final ballot to advance to the primary ballot.
Maloy was registered to vote as a Republican in Utah when she filed to run in the special congressional election in Utah’s 2nd District, but she was marked as an inactive voter because she did not cast a ballot in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Additionally, she was in the process of being purged from Utah’s rolls completely because the National Change of Address database maintained by the U.S. Postal Service showed her living in Virginia.
A court challenge could be difficult since state law and the Utah GOP Constitution say nothing about whether voter registrations must be current for members. “My primary residence is in Cedar City in the middle of the District. I think it’s important we have somebody representing this District who lives there,” Maloy said during a. “Surely there’s enough homegrown talent in the district that we don’t have to look outside the district to find somebody to represent us.”
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