Herbert pushes GOP to drop fight against signature gathering

SALT LAKE CITY — Days after a federal appeals court upheld Utah's controversial election law allowing candidates to gather signatures to get on the primary ballot, Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday encouraged the Utah Republican Party to drop the fight."We've tried and tried and tried, and again SB54 has been upheld as constitutional," the governor said at his monthly KUED news conference. "I think we see the writing on the wall."The Utah GOP sued the state over the 2014 law known as SB54, whi