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May 11, 2012
Kobach concedes Kansas voter-citizenship plan dead
Secretary of State Kris Kobach conceded Thursday that Kansas won't require first-time voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship ahead of this year's elections because the Senate's top leader effectively killed the proposal. John Hanna, The Kansas City Star.
Bar’s get-out-the vote move backfires
The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating a downtown Grand Forks bar’s promotion of rewarding voters with a free beer. Ryan Bakken, Grand Forks Herald.
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May 10, 2012
Potential perfect storm of changes await Idaho voters
Election officials work to prepare voters for what’s to come
Recently, an election official noted that “uncertainty is the enemy of election administration.”
This year in Idaho, which holds it’s primary on May 15, not only has uncertainty been an enemy, but so has change.
In addition to redistricting, the state legislature made several major changes to how Idahoans vote and that has left many local election officials scrambling to implement the changes and explain them to voters.
This year will be Idaho’s first-ever closed primary. Every voter will have to declare a party affiliation for the first time. About a week before the election, the secretary of state’s office figured that about 85 percent of the state’s voters had yet to officially declare a party.
“Redistricting and closed primaries have the potential of creating a perfect storm,” said Christopher Rich, clerk for Ada County. Read More…