Thanks to Jason Chaffetz, we now have a congressional representative elected by 35 percent of the registered voters, with 65 percent not bothering to make a choice.
The general election in which Republican John Curtis defeated Democrat Kathie Allen and United Utah Party candidate Jim Bennett actually had a lower turnout than the GOP primary, which had 40 percent turnout among Republicans.
It was a special election for Congress, of course, which was piggybacked onto nonpartisan municipal races already scheduled in this off year, typically attracting lower turnout than the years featuring congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial races, as well as state legislative contests.