Initiatives: STOP THEM ENTIRELY. Citizens should work with their legislators to craft bills and champion them in the legislature. As we've seen with Proposition 1 and the Medicare Expansion initiatives, results can be disastrous when misleading petitions and complex and deceptive laws are proposed via initiative.
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Campaign finance. Keep it transparent so we know who is contributing and who is backing a candidate or initiative (but see above request to abolish). Other than that, putting restrictions (except perhaps foreign enemy influence) can have unforeseen side effects.
I'd like to see HB 470: Idaho Elections Crime Act reintroduced this coming session. Rep. Joe Alfieri introduced this bill last year where it failed in the House by 2 votes.
My suggestions about elections, absentee voting, etc. are as they've always been:
* Paper ballots.
* Hand counting and auditing.
* Limited early voting.
* Mostly in-person voting. It's not that hard!
* Absentee voting ONLY with good excuse.
* NO mass mail-in ballots.
* Monitored drop boxes, if any, and only inside official buildings where they cannot be tampered with.
* Scrupulous chain of custody.
* Smaller voting precincts where people know their neighbors. Boise County is a model for how this can work.
* Retain all current voting integrity laws, or strengthen them.
* See this page for more ideas: https://eolson47.substack.com/p/america-on-life-support-every-state
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Initiatives: STOP THEM ENTIRELY. Citizens should work with their legislators to craft bills and champion them in the legislature. As we've seen with Proposition 1 and the Medicare Expansion initiatives, results can be disastrous when misleading petitions and complex and deceptive laws are proposed via initiative.
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Campaign finance. Keep it transparent so we know who is contributing and who is backing a candidate or initiative (but see above request to abolish). Other than that, putting restrictions (except perhaps foreign enemy influence) can have unforeseen side effects.
I agree with all of these suggestions.
Yes, yes, and yes.
I'd like to see HB 470: Idaho Elections Crime Act reintroduced this coming session. Rep. Joe Alfieri introduced this bill last year where it failed in the House by 2 votes.