Voting

BRIGHAM CITY — For a ghost town, Yost sure wants a say in the upcoming election.

The voting precinct in the northwestern Box Elder village had 22 registered voters for June’s primary. An amazing 78 percent of them voted, giving Yost the distinction of having the highest voter participation in the county.

And that’s for a community described on Wikipedia as a “ghost town.”

Election Day is more than a month away, but officials are working to get people into the voting booths.

National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday put those efforts front and center.

As a part of National Voter Registration Day, the state Multicultural Affairs Office held a registration drive at 300 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City. The office developed a partnership with the Lieutenant Governor’s Election Office. Through the Multicultural Affairs Office, Director Claudia Nakano said, the state hopes to get more minorities to participate in upcoming elections, as well as be eligible voters in general.

That was an exciting election, wasn’t it?

“It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”

— DANIEL WEBSTER

Well-managed government never relies on laws or ordinances, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The process of government is always secondary to the will of those who direct that process. Consequently, the most important element of government is the method by which leaders are chosen.

FARGO, N.D. -- Voters cast ballots Tuesday to resolve a bitter dispute over the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname, even as supporters of the moniker promised to resume the battle this fall regardless of the outcome.

The issue has been simmering for decades, dividing the state, sports fans, alumni and even area tribes. But it boiled over seven years ago when UND was placed on a list of schools with American Indian nicknames that the NCAA deemed hostile and abusive. Those colleges were told to dump the names or risk sanctions against their athletic teams.

Voters in Tuesday's North Dakota primary are being asked whether to uphold or reject the Legislature's repeal of a state law requiring the school to use the nickname and American Indian head logo.

FARMINGTON — Election judges Barbara Gorringe and Darlene LeFevre, who between them have 65 years of poll-working experience, have hung around like a ballot chad through electronic voting, closed primaries and larger voting precincts.

OGDEN — Weber State University students turned out in record numbers to choose new student executive officers.

“We had 2,356 students vote, and that is the highest number in almost 10 years,” said Anna Adamson, student election coordinator.