Terms Used In Utah Code 20A-9-409

• Ballot: means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Candidates for elective office: means persons who file a declaration of candidacy under Section 20A-9-202 to run in a regular general election for a federal office, constitutional office, multicounty office, or county office. See Utah Code 20A-9-101
• Election: means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal primary election, and a special district election. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Filing officer: means :
       (7)(a) the lieutenant governor, for:

            (7)(a)(i) the office of United States Senator and United States Representative; and

            (7)(a)(ii) all constitutional offices;
       (7)(b) for the office of a state senator, state representative, or the state school board, the lieutenant governor or the applicable clerk described in Subsection (7)(c) or (d);
       (7)(c) the county clerk, for county offices and local school district offices;
       (7)(d) the county clerk in the filer's county of residence, for multicounty offices;
       (7)(e) the city or town clerk, for municipal offices; or
       (7)(f) the special district clerk, for special district offices. See Utah Code 20A-9-101
• Political party: means an organization of registered voters that has qualified to participate in an election by meeting the requirements of Chapter 8, Political Party Formation and Procedures. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Position: means a square, circle, rectangle, or other geometric shape on a ballot in which the voter marks the voter's choice. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• qualified: means to take the oath of office and begin performing the duties of the position for which the individual was elected. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Qualified political party: means a registered political party that:
       (13)(a)

            (13)(a)(i) permits a delegate for the registered political party to vote on a candidate nomination in the registered political party's convention remotely; or

            (13)(a)(ii) provides a procedure for designating an alternate delegate if a delegate is not present at the registered political party's convention;
       (13)(b) does not hold the registered political party's convention before the fourth Saturday in March of an even-numbered year;
       (13)(c) permits a member of the registered political party to seek the registered political party's nomination for any elective office by the member choosing to seek the nomination by either or both of the following methods:

            (13)(c)(i) seeking the nomination through the registered political party's convention process, in accordance with the provisions of Section 20A-9-407; or

            (13)(c)(ii) seeking the nomination by collecting signatures, in accordance with the provisions of Section 20A-9-408; and
       (13)(d)

            (13)(d)(i) if the registered political party is a continuing political party, no later than 5 p. See Utah Code 20A-9-101
• Regular primary election: means the election, held on the date specified in Section Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Vacancy: means :
       (75)(a) except as provided in Subsection (75)(b), the absence of an individual to serve in a position created by state constitution or state statute, whether that absence occurs because of death, disability, disqualification, resignation, or other cause ; or
       (75)(b) in relation to a candidate for a position created by state constitution or state statute, the removal of a candidate due to the candidate's death, resignation, or disqualification. See Utah Code 20A-1-102