Court Tosses Idaho’s Bid to Block Ballot Measure for Open Primaries, Ranked-Choice Voting

Published on August 14, 2024

Idaho’s highest court has dismissed the state’s bid to stop a ballot initiative that would create open primaries and ranked-choice voting if approved by voters this November. In an opinion handed down on Aug. 13, a five-judge panel of the Idaho Supreme Court dismissed Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s lawsuit seeking to block the measure, dubbed Proposition 1, from going up for vote. Labrador filed the challenge in July with the Idaho Supreme Court, alleging that Proposition 1’s sponsors misled the public and fraudulently obtained signatures that were used to qualify the measure for the upcoming general election. He also claimed that the voter initiative violates the state constitution’s requirement that each law should address only one single subject....

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