Have dysfunction and infighting made Utah’s major political parties irrelevant?

Other than for ninth grade student body president, Melissa Garff Ballard had never run a campaign before.Still, when the North Salt Lake Republican launched her bid for a Utah House seat last year, she figured she’d receive enough help from her party to make up for any gaps in knowledge.“As a new legislator," she said, “what I was expecting was that when I won the primary vote, that during the summer and for the fall, the party would have had our precinct chairs help get new vo