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SALT LAKE CITY – Next month’s municipal election in Hildale, Utah, could give the town its first mayor and City Council members who don’t claim affiliation with a polygamous sect.
Donia Jessop is running for mayor after being nominated at an unofficial convention attended by mostly people who don’t follow Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Salt Lake Tribune reported . The sect is a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism, which disavowed polygamy more than 100 years ago.
Hildale and neighboring Colorado City, Arizona, are undergoing a court-ordered overhaul of their municipal operations in response to a 2016 jury verdict that found the towns had discriminated against people who weren’t members of the sect.
People in Hildale who aren’t part of the sect have concerns about how fair the election will be. They worry that those who should be ineligible to vote will still cast ballots, or that members who haven’t lived in town for years will be recruited to register to vote.
A group wanting fair elections in Hildale submitted the names of 102 voters they contend should be removed from the roll. As of Thursday, the town had 365…
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