Idaho judge dismisses AG's challenge to open primaries ballot initiative

[RandySF]

A district court judge in Idaho has denied Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s latest legal challenge to a ballot issue that seeks to end the state’s closed party primary elections and create ranked-choice voting in the general election.

On Thursday, District Court Judge Patrick J. Miller dismissed Labrador’s motion for summary judgment seeking to have the signatures on the ballot initiative declared invalid.

“The evidence the Attorney General submits actually negates the idea that the defendants perpetrated false statements to thousands of persons who actually signed the petition,” Miller wrote in Thursday’s ruling.

Labrador had alleged that volunteer signature gatherers supporting the Idahoans for Open Primaries coalition misled the public and fraudulently obtained the signatures used to qualify the ballot initiative for the election.




https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/09/05/idaho-judge-dismisses-ags-challenge-to-open-primaries-ballot-initiative/

[yonder]

1. Great news. The red-state PTB here have strangled our citizens initiative process the last 20 years or so

This is another example of that from a dangerously ambitious former US Rep. and current AG who is setting himself up for a run at higher office.