Secret ballots ensure voters’ right to privacy during an election, and posting pictures of your ballot is discouraged in some states.

2024 marks a historic election year with lots of focus on, not just who gets elected but also on how our election system works at both a national and local level.

It would be Orwellian if the government could decide the words that it deems acceptable or proper or true to describe our thoughts, our ideas, our reforms,” the attorney for Idahoans for Open Primaries said​.

Nine presidential candidates, including five independent candidates, have qualified to appear on Idaho’s 2024 ballot, the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office announced Wednesday. The Idaho State Journal invites you to take part in the community conversation.

“I’m right here,” replied Carmen Broesder, a mother living in Idaho, which enacted a trigger law after the fall of Roe, a making it a felony for doctors to provide an abortion unless it was necessary “to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.”

Just hours after it began, legal betting on the outcome of U.S. Congressional elections has been put on hold by a federal appeals court. The Court of Appeals in Washington issued an order Thursday night temporarily freezing the matter until it can consider and rule on the matter.