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Now it's our turn: Idaho Presidential Primary is
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March 7, 2016 |
After watching 28 states and territories head to
the primary voting booths over the past month or
so, Idaho
 now
goes to the polls to vote its preferences in the
Idaho Presidential Primary.
Joining Idaho on Tuesday, March 8 will be
Hawaii, Michigan, and Mississippi, three other
states that will also hold presidential
primaries on Tuesday.
Please be aware that the primary voting in Idaho
on March 8 is for the Republican Party and the
Constitution Party only. The Democratic Party
will hold county caucuses on March 22.
Republicans going to the polls on Tuesday will
find 13 names on the primary ballot, although
currently only four of those candidates actually
remain in the running. The 13 listed on the
Republican ballot include, in the order they are
listed on the ballot:
• Mike Huckabee
• John R. Kasich
• Peter Messina
• Rand Paul
• Marco Rubio
• Rick Santorum
• Donald J. Trump
• Jeb Bush
• Ben Carson
• Chris Christie
• Ted Cruz
• Carly Fiorina
• Lindsey Graham
To see a sample of the official ballot for the
Republican Party Presidential Primary,
click here.
The Constitution Party ballot lists three names
to select from in their Presidential Primary.
Those names, in the order they are listed on the
ballot, are:
• Scott Copeland
• J.R. Myers
• Patrick Anthony Ockander
To see a sample of the official ballot for the
Constitution Party Presidential Primary,
click here.
Idaho sends 32 delegates to the Republican
National Convention, which will be held July
18-21 in Cleveland, Ohio. To collect any of
those Idaho delegates, a Republican candidate
must win at least 20% of the vote. If any
candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, that
candidate gets all 32 delegates.
Republican delegates up for grabs in the other
states voting that day: Hawaii sends 19
delegates, Michigan sends 148 delegates, and
Mississippi sends 41 delegates to the
convention.
The polls open in Boundary County at 8:00 a.m.,
and remain open until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday,
March 8.
If you took a peek at the sample ballots shown
at the links above, you would see that the
ballots this year
 look
very different from ballots used in Boundary
County elections in the past. That is because
this is the first election where Boundary County
will employ its seven newly acquired DS 200
Precinct Tabulation Scanners, which are
electronic vote scanners and tabulators. County
election officials are estimating that, with
these new scanners, they will be able to fully
tabulate all votes by 9:30 or 10:00 p.m. on
election night, much improved from the past when
election officials often were up sometimes until
4:00 a.m. counting votes under the previous
hand-marked ballot system.
If you would like the full details on the
acquisition and cost of the new electronic vote
scanners, how they work, and lots of other
information on these devices, take a look at our
NewsBF story on the new scanners from last
January by
clicking here.
Idaho's most recent Presidential Primary was
held back in 2008. In that primary, 1,466
Republican voters turned out to participate in
Boundary County. It
will be interesting to see if that number is
affected at all by this year's hotly contested
primary race.
Idaho voters will go to the polls again in two
months on May 17 for another primary election.
The May 17 primary will be held to select
candidates for federal, statewide, legislative,
judicial, and county offices.
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