BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho Republican lawmaker has joined other GOP-led states in targeting ballot drop boxes in elections, with a new bill that would ban using them statewide.
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, said there have been no issues with drop boxes in Idaho, but the legislation could prevent ballot tampering in the future.
Republicans across the U.S. have targeted drop boxes before and since the 2020 election, when ballot boxes were a popular way to vote amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Similar legislation and executive orders banning, limiting or securing drop boxes have come out of Georgia, Texas and Nebraska, while other states have seen challenges to ballot boxes through their courts.
