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Tribune editorial: At least Utah’s election woes are not on purpose

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If you can, as the old saying goes, blame your problems on incompetence rather than evil, you might live in Utah. Utah County, that is.

Candidates and their supporters in Florida, Georgia and Arizona are still attacking one another — and their respective state and county election officials — alleging malice, skulduggery and downright cheating.

Razor-thin margins in races for governor, U.S. Senate and other positions are tied to voter suppression efforts that range from pre-election purges of voter rolls to shortages of voting and counting machines to reports of whole bundles of ballots going missing and then turning up again.