After the November elections, Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon celebrated the “strong conservative campaigns” she witnessed in Caldwell, Post Falls and Pocatello.

Those were all nonpartisan races, she acknowledged — but that label is a “farce,” she wrote in a Nov. 6 post.

“Let’s be honest: there’s no such thing as a ‘nonpartisan’ race anymore,” she said.

For years, the Idaho Republican Party has advocated to turn more races into partisan ones, arguing that party labels offer voters critical information about the candidates. Now, some lawmakers are making a push to eliminate nonpartisan elections altogether.

House Speaker Mike Moyle told the Idaho Statesman that lawmakers have been drafting legislation to make every race partisan, which would require party labels on every

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