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MANILA, Utah (AP) -- The prosecutor in the Daggett County voter-fraud scandal is quitting the case.
County Attorney Bryan Sidwell removed himself before 20 of 51 defendants could be arraigned.
Sidwell refused to say why he was dumping the case.
Now the Utah attorney general's office will have to step in or appoint a special prosecutor.
The voters are accused of illegally registering in Daggett County even though they don't live or maintain a primary residence there.
The case involves the 2006 election, when then-Sheriff Alan Campbell complained that the voter rolls were growing in the small county near the Wyoming border.
Campbell, a Democrat, lost the election to Republican Rick Ellsworth by 20 votes.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
