Fisher: Tighter Controls On Voting? Or Voters?
How many times do some Idaho Republicans have to
poke voters in the eye before the voters start responding in kind? When members of the Bill Sali wing of the party aren’t trying to close their primary elections to all but those who register publicly as Republicans, legislators like Tom Loertscher are killing legislation permitting Idahoans to vote by mail they way their neighbors in Oregon and Washington do. And now that it has become apparent many Idahoans vote by mail anyway, through the absentee process, some Republicans want it curtailed/
Jim Fisher
, Lewiston Tribune.
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Question: Did you vote absentee or at the polls this year? Would you like to see Idaho go to a vote-by-mail system?
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