Idaho GOPrez primary cost state $1.9M

Idaho’s Republican presidential primary election cost taxpayers $1.9 million this year, coming in just slightly under what state officials originally estimated. Idaho lawmakers agreed to move the GOP presidential primary from May to March in 2015. The conservative-dominated Statehouse argued that doing so would allow the Gem State to play a bigger role in deciding the presidential nominee. However, Democratic lawmakers objected to the move. They argued that taxpayers should not pay for a separate partisan election that is closed to voters who aren’t registered as a Republican/ Associated Press . More here.