Chaffetz’s premature exit set up Utah for yet another problematic special election

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 alre