Ballot initiatives

A ballot initiative that would open Idaho’s primary elections to all voters got its biggest endorsement yet.

State senators Monday voted to make it significantly harder to get an initiative or referendum on the ballot.

A proposal working its way through the Idaho legislature would change the way a citizens initiative gets on the ballot.

A proposed constitutional amendment to further restrict the ballot initiative process in Idaho isn’t going directly to the Senate floor, with Republican leaders saying it needs some tweaks.

Republican lawmakers are once again seeking to add further restrictions to the ballot initiative process – this time through a constitutional amendment.

A ballot initiative that aims to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy to boost education funding will go before Idaho voters in November. But state officials and organizers are at odds as to whether the measure would also negate tax cuts passed earlier this year by the legislature.

Idaho’s top elected leaders approved paying out $152,000 in legal costs Monday after the state lost a case defending a law that made it significantly harder to get an initiative on the ballot.

The Idaho Supreme Court says Republican state lawmakers had no “compelling” interest to add significant restrictions to Idaho’s ballot initiative process.

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