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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- Utah Republican executives are proposing a rule change that would make it easier for the party's state convention to pick candidates without them having to go through a primary battle.
Chris Bleak -- the state G-O-P executive director -- says the plan calls for a new final-run-off ballot to take place in close, contested races after a previous ballot had reduces large candidate fields to two candidates.
A candidate receiving 60 percent of the delegate vote on the final ballot would win the nomation without having to take part in the June primary.
The rule change will be proposed to delegates at the May eighth convention.
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