PODER of Idaho, a local group dedicated to Latino and immigrant communities, has seen an uptick in donations, according to Executive Director Estefanía Mondragón. The Alliance of Idaho, which offers low-cost immigration legal services, said the number of participants in its year-end fundraising campaign nearly doubled.

An unprecedented year of campaign spending has led some officials to consider amendments to Idaho’s campaign finance laws in an effort to make it easier to track electioneering

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Pro Tem, Mr. President, honored legislators, my fellow constitutional officers, Mr. Chief Justice and members of the judiciary, my wife and your First Lady, Teresa, my family, friends,

Idaho law requires any entity spending more than $100 on electioneering communications to file a report to the secretary of state. Independent expenditures are required to be reported by seven days prior to the election and within 30 days after the election, according to state code.

Dorothy Moon, the chairwoman of the extremist faction of the Idaho Republican Party, proclaimed on election night that: “We’re not ever going to let Reclaim Idaho bring another initiative.” Moon was honked off that the citizen initiative group had just run a third initiative drive seeking reform of Idaho laws.

Idaho Public Policy Survey, conducted and released by Boise State University’s Idaho Policy Institute, has been released as public information. The survey, conducted Nov. 9-14, 2024, examined the attitudes of a representative sample of 1,

Several proposed election reforms on the 2024 ballot offered promising solutions: Reduce the power of partisan primaries, ensure more robust competition in general elections, and increase the likelihood that winning campaigns represent the median voter rather than a lesser-of-two-evils result.

Jared DeLoof, executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party, speaks to attendees during the general election watch party Nov. 5, 2024, in Boise. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) Idaho Democratic Party Executive Director Jared DeLoof is resigning ...

State of the State Address and a new system for reserving campgrounds, these are a few of the things happening in your neighborhood on Jan. 6.

BOISE — An unprecedented year of campaign spending has led some officials to consider amendments to Idaho’s campaign finance laws in an effort to make it easier to track electioneering messaging.

Other recent ballot initiatives have targeted greater public school funding — a 2022 proposal that was withdrawn after lawmakers increased education funding on their own — and to legalize medical marijuana. Last year, an effort to enact open political primaries and ranked-choice voting made it on the ballot, but failed with 30% of votes.

A civil complaint claiming that more than $2.3 million in fines could be levied against elected officials in Teton County, Idaho, and 19 volunteer committee members for alleged open meeting