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Edit: Next trustee election begins

Today's Coeur d'Alene Press editorial:

The Press has supported Sen. Mary Souza’s efforts to move school board elections from obscure spring dates to the much more popular November general election cycle. Our reasoning is fairly simple: Single digits. That’s the turnout school board elections generate around here, and it’s unacceptable.

But we confess to having some reservations, which also are fairly simple: Does greater turnout assure better representation if the vast majority of additional voters are ignorant about the issues and candidacies within their school district? In other words, would you rather have a handful of well-informed citizens do the choosing, or a bunch of people exercising their constitutional right without a clue about who or what they’re voting on? Think carefully before answering. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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