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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Republican Party has approved a proposal to use a caucus system instead of a primary election next year when choosing the state's GOP's nominee for president.
The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/1C2939r ) the Republican Party's governing committee voted Saturday to let the party pick a nominee at local caucus meetings.
It would occur on a night where Republicans are also picking delegates to represent them at later nominating conventions for state and county political offices.
Utah has held primary elections in recent years but state GOP chairman James Evans says a caucus system will increase turnout for the party in 2016.
The change comes as the GOP is fighting a new law allowing state and local candidates to bypass the default caucus system and instead compete in primary elections.
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