An audit of ticketing procedures by the Utah Debate Commission found Lee’s team gained access to tickets for the event more than five hours before the McMullin campaign, which allowed them to pack the room with supporters.
An audit by the Utah Debate Commission confirms previous reporting by The Salt Lake Tribune that Lee’s camp snapped up most of the public tickets before Evan McMullin supporters knew tickets were available.
The crowd at Utah Valley University was sometimes so disruptive, often cheering Lee and razzing McMullin, that debate moderator Doug Wright of KSL Radio had to repeatedly scold the audience. That disproportionately pro-Lee mix in the audience prompted an examination of the debate commission’s ticketing process., showed Lee’s team became aware that the link to request tickets was available to the public several hours before the Utah Debate Commission officially informed both campaigns.
At 6:48 p.m. that day, commission executive director Erik Nielsen sent an email to the Lee and McMullin campaigns that the ticketing website was available. Unknown to Nielsen, all the public tickets were already gone. The remaining 100 seats had been set aside for the campaigns, VIPs and the media.
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