Utah elects its statewide state constitutional officers in presidential years. For Treasurer and Auditor, no Democrat ran. This made it possible for the Libertarian, Constitution, and United Utah Parties to poll over 10% of the vote in at least one of those races. The minor party vote for each of those offices was approximately 25%. See the results here. The Utah vote test is 2% (of the statewide vote for US House) for any statewide race at either of the last two elections.
The Independent American Party went off the ballot, because it didn’t poll as much as 2% for any statewide race in either 2018 or 2020. It did well for Governor in 2020, but its 25,810 votes for Governor in 2020 were less than 2% of the 2020 US House vote, which was 1,431,777 votes. 2% of 1,431,777 equals 28,636.
May I question your conclusion? True none of the Independent American Party candidates in 2020 garnered two-percent of the total vote. But my reading of the State Law leads me to the conclusion it is NOT 2% of the vote but more than 2% of the Congressional District’s total vote – which in 2018 was a total of 1,052,469; 2% of that total being being 21,048. My Gubernatorial race garnered 25,000+ votes, which is over the 2% margin. Sorry, you are wrong.
You are right that the vote test is 2% of the statewide US House vote. But the 2020 US House vote in the state was 1,431,777, and 2% of that is 28,636.
The Utah IAP should’ve ran more candidates there.