Ada County Elections

From 8 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., polling locations are available across the state, as voters make choices in nearly every county in Idaho.

All candidates were asked about Idaho House Bill 710, a new law that requires libraries to restrict access to items deemed “harmful to minors.”

Idaho’s most populous county said it’s ready to count an unprecedented number of ballots next week.

A new tool, called the Ada County Ballot Verifier, will save time, provide greater transparency and demonstrate integrity at election time.

Some worry the change in state law could lead to more voter confusion.

Ada County residents have voted to keep the Meridian Library District board of Trustees as is. Incumbents Josh Cummings and Destinie Hart both retained their seats with large majorities in Tuesday’s election.

Residents in Ada County are headed to the polls on Tuesday. Meridian residents will be voting for two open seats on the Library District’s board of Trustees, a few months after surviving a dissolution attempt.

Election Day 2022 is already on pace for a higher-than-normal midterm turnout, but Ada County election officials have a detailed operations plan, beginning with thousands of poll workers, and then dozens more to process 38,311 absentee ballots as of Monday, nearly twice as many as a traditional midterm election.

The Ada County GOP Central Committee is endorsing candidates running for the College of Western Idaho’s board of trustees drawing attention to the role of politics in non-partisan races.

Morning Edition host George Prentice touches base with All Things Considered host Troy Oppie and reporter Rachel Cohen, as they each drill down in to some key races.