Here is a glimpse into the background of a few the third-party candidates interviewed by the Deseret Morning News:

Scott Bradley: He gave his first Republican speech 42 years ago, in front of a Democratic teacher at Bountiful Junior High. This year he bolted from the party and joined ranks with the Constitutional Party. He's the founder of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation, has "liberty1787" as his e-mail moniker and believes that "the goodness of the nation continues to unravel regardless of which of the two parties is in power." He works as an administrator at Utah State University and is currently reading the 20-volume collected works of Thomas Jefferson.

Julian Hatch: Related to Orrin Hatch "six great-grandfathers back," he is best known for his effort to get a beer license for a Boulder establishment he called Freedom from Religion. Outspoken, talkative and politically liberal, he volunteered to serve during Vietnam even though he opposed the war. He is southern Utah coordinator for the Western Watershed Project and has been a member of the Green Party for about a decade. He'd like to debate his distant cousin but figures the closest he'll get to Orrin was seeing him from afar during a pro-Bush rally in August.

Roger I. Price: A former mechanic, farmer and Navy veteran, he got a degree in political science four years ago, at age 57. He lives in Huntsville, favors jeans and suspenders and liberally quotes James Madison and Shakespeare. "Democracy, if you look at it, is a form of tyranny," he says, "because it's tyranny by the majority." Political parties are unconstitutional, he says, "because they form democracy." He says he is tired of legislation and court rulings based upon a conservative or liberal agenda rather than the Constitution, "the supreme law of the land."

Dave Seely: Once a Republican and a county delegate to the party, he joined the Libertarians in 2000. He's a full-time optician, part-time emergency coordinator for the city of St. George, owns a small repair shop where he builds hot rods and race cars and holds a speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. "Mr. Hatch is a liberal Democrat in Republican garb," he says. He hates the "co-called Patriot Act," which he says "guts the individual rights listed in the Bill of Rights." President Bush, whom he describes as "imperialist," should be impeached, he says.