The fight over Utah's state flag will continue into next year. A group hoping to overturn Utah's new state flag is set to file a ballot initiative on Tuesday.
HB393 would allow any candidate who gets 70% of the delegate vote at party conventions to avoid a primary election, even if a challenger collected the required number of signatures.
State lawmakers advanced a bill that would all but eliminate signature gathering as a path to the primary election ballot, forcing candidates to go through the partisan caucus convention system.
The citizens initiative group is threatening to launch a statewide ballot initiative to protect that signature path to the primary election if a new bill passes.