PROP 1: Unpredictable costs to taxpayer

I likely had more invested in the outcome of the 1992 presidential election than most reading this paper. I worked for George H.W. Bush and lost my job. I credit Ross Perot for that outcome. But for peddlers of Prop 1 to suggest that ranked choice voting in Idaho would have saved my job from the disruption of Ross Perot is false and misleading. Idaho is not voting on ranked choice for America. We’re voting for our state. We live in a constitutional republic. Idaho has four electoral votes. In 1992 all of those electoral votes went to George HW Bush. I’m disappointed that the Prop 1 effort has lacked accurate education and full transparency as a tactic to persuade voters.

Prop 1 contains two major and distinct questions. The official voter guide reveals in its multiple pages how Prop 1 would completely overhaul the Idaho electoral process. It’s not just about open primaries. It involves significant and unpredictable costs to taxpayers. And now in a last ditch effort to persuade voters in a forum that was supposed to be factual, presenters provide this misleading information. As an Idaho voter and a taxpayer, I’m opposing Prop 1 for these reasons.

DOREEN DENNY

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