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Utah County commissioner calls on clerk to recuse himself from overseeing election

“There’s several places that lines have been crossed,” Commissioner Amelia Powers Gardner said.

A Utah County commissioner is calling on the county clerk to step aside from overseeing the upcoming election, accusing him of bias.

“I would like Aaron Davidson to recuse himself from the administration of this election,” Commissioner Amelia Powers Gardner said Wednesday.

But Davidson told FOX 13 News in an interview he will not, calling the commissioner’s demand “ridiculous.”

“There’s several places that lines have been crossed. One is him calling out a candidate that’s currently of the ballot, that would be the Lt. Governor. Another would be filing an amicus brief on behalf of another candidate, which would be Phil Lyman. On top of that? Him targeting individual voters to see how they voted is really unacceptable and potentially a violation of their constitutional rights,” Gardner said.

The controversy erupted with a letter Davidson penned in response to a legislative audit about the signature-gathering process for Gov. Spencer Cox, Congressman John Curtis and Republican attorney general candidate Derek Brown. Davidson was critical of Lt. Gov.r Deidre Henderson’s handling of things, even after auditors found no major problems.

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