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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is holding its first mail-in primary because of the coronavirus pandemic, and a federal court ruling is allowing voters an extra week to request ballots. What effect that has on who will be on the November ballot will be made clear late Tuesday when officials start releasing results. Former 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Paulette Jordan of Plummer is running against former congressional candidate Jim Vandermaas for a chance to challenge Republican Sen. Jim Risch in November. Jordan garnered national attention in 2018 when she sought to become the first Native American governor in the United States.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho’s ballot initiative process as unconstitutional because it requires signatures from multiple legislative districts has been dismissed. Chief U.S. District Court Judge David C. Nye on Monday ruled that Idaho's ballot initiative process does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause involving fairness in voting. The ruling potentially clears the way for lawmakers to make the initiative process much more difficult by expanding the number of legislative districts where signatures must be collected. A 2019 attempt to do so failed when Republican Gov. Brad Little vetoed the legislation amid fears a federal court could dictate the state's initiative process.
UNDATED (AP) — Joe Biden is on the cusp of formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination after winning hundreds more delegates in primary contests that tested the nation's ability to run elections while balancing a pandemic and sweeping social unrest. Biden could lock down the nomination during next week’s primaries in West Virginia and Georgia. Voters across America on Tuesday were forced to navigate curfews, health concerns and National Guard troops. In some cases, they waited in line hours after polls closed. Biden and President Donald Trump easily swept their respective primary contests that ranged from Maryland to Montana and featured the night’s biggest prize: Pennsylvania.
UNDATED (AP) — Joe Biden has scored a clean sweep of the seven states conducting Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday, not at all a surprise given that the presumptive Democratic nominee has no active opposition. His latest victories came in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Rhode Island, New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota. The delegate haul remains important to Biden’s goal of gaining enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination ahead of the summer convention. Tuesday’s results may leave Biden just short of the 1,991 delegates he needs, but primaries next week in Georgia and West Virginia could put him over the top.
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