Idaho Politics: Primary Election
Good Morning Idaho; Now Go Vote
Bad officials are elected by good people who don't vote.By Jill Kuraitis, 5-26-08
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Voting in Idaho primaries is easy.
You pick one political party and vote that ballot.
You don’t have to vote your own party or belong to any party. You just have to follow through and vote just one party’s ballot. (In the general election in November, you’ll be able to mix it up.)
If a primary candidate has no opponent, you can write in a name.
There will be two Supreme Court justices to choose from and they will be on all ballots, since it is technically a nonpartisan race.
Not registered? Not a problem.
You can register to vote right at the polling place. Take some kind of identification which has your address. Register, vote and get your “I Voted” sticker.It is traditional to wear the sticker on your lapel all day. It declares your sterling moral character, and reminds other people to vote.
You can print out this registration form and fill it out in advance, but you don’t have to.
Read the list of candidates here.
More Ada County voting information here.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Jean Nathan, American Journalist, is the author of the quote under the title.
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Comments
Also, if anyone challenges your right to register or vote, you can fill out a provisional ballot. If you continue to run into snags as you try to vote... call the Idaho State Democratic Party at
336-1815. They're committed to ensuring that everyone gets to vote.
Be sure you are voting in the correct precinct.
I understood that He said that if you don't vote you don't matter. This is probably the biggest chance for everyone to matter, so please for your countries sake VOTE!
the word 'poll' is an English word that once meant " top of the head", hence the name poll tax for a per-person (or 'head tax'] tax.
However, in the United States, the term has come to be used almost exclusively for a fixed tax applied to voting. Since "going to the polls" is a common idiom for voting (deriving from the fact that early voting involved head-counts), a new folk etymology has supplanted common knowledge of the phrase's true origins in America. So people nowadays think poll refers to the polling place, when it originally referred to taxing per head, or per person.
Why use poll to refer to a head? Checking with the O.E.D., one finds that an alternative spelling, pole, meant top of the head, and so living as we do in the northern hemisphere, we think of the North Pole as the top of the globe 'head'! The OED helpfully says that the use of 'poll' to refer to the top of a person's head has passed out of literature, but is very common in ordinary speech. I remember my grandmother using it to refer to a man's bald poll.