Bennett wants suit thrown out

U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit from an ex-convict who ran against him in the November election — and got only 16 votes.

Cody Judy filed suit Dec. 6 against Bennett and state elections officials, alleging that no pencils were provided in voting booths to allow voters to write in a candidate and no lists of write-in candidates were posted at polling places.

The Bountiful man has requested a $100,000 reimbursement for campaign expenses and a new election for senator to correct the alleged failures. Judy lost by more than 600,000 votes.

Bennett's lawyers say the incumbent won the election fairly. They also note that Judy never says he would have won the race if not for the alleged irregularities.

Judy spent eight years in prison after trying to force Howard W. Hunter, then a general authority in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to declare him the true prophet of God by threatening the church official with a purported makeshift bomb during an appearance at Brigham Young University in 1993.