Don't like Trump or Clinton? Utah has 12 other options

There are a dozen other candidates on the Utah ballot so far who want to serve as America's next commander-in-chief, including a former CIA officer, a marijuana-friendly former governor and a doctor who once ran against Mitt Romney for governor of Massachusetts and calls for all student loan debt to be forgiven.

Utah voters have shown in the past they're willing to back third party candidates, In 1992, Ross Perot finished second in the deeply Republican state to George H.W. Bush, leaving Bill Clinton in third place.

"Utahns are willing to vote their conscience more than just with their party," said Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.

Polls show that in a year when voters are dissatisfied with the major party nominees, some alternative candidates are gaining traction.

Unaffiliated candidates or members of unregistered political parties can qualify for the ballot with 1,000 voter signatures and a $500 filing fee.

A businessman who served two terms as the Republican governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson is the Libertarian Party's nominee for president and may be best known for his years-long advocacy to legalize marijuana.

Kennedy is a former coal miner who lived in Utah for four years and joined a protest this year in the state against the fatal shooting by Oregon state police of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, an Arizona rancher involved in the armed standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge.

Stein is calling for efforts to stop climate change, hydraulic fracturing, offshore drilling and uranium mining.

Moorhead's campaign platform calls for the end of capitalism, a stop to deportations of those in the country illegally and affordable housing.