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.

McGrane was in Kootenai County to watch the canvassing of votes. He said the voting tallies were accurate and there is strong voter confidence in the integrity of Idaho elections. “Idaho is in a really good place,

Elmore County Clerk Shelley Essl notified the state on Nov. 14 that she found a discrepancy between the number of ballots cast and the number counted in the Nov. 4 election, Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane told the Idaho Statesman.

After identifying 300 uncounted ballots in the certified results, Elmore County officials are conducting a full hand review to ensure accurate final totals.

The Idaho Secretary of State’s Office on Tuesday said its election team planned to go to Elmore County to investigate.

Following the report of the ballot discrepancy, Secretary of State Phil McGrane and 17 other elected officials from the secretary's office aided in the hand count.

With less than a week to go before a runoff election, two candidates are still in the race to become Idaho Falls’ new mayor. Thousands of votes were cast on Nov.

About 300 ballots in Elmore County were not counted in the results of the Nov. 4 election, prompting an investigation into what caused the discrepancy.

Early voting for the Idaho Falls runoff election has been strong, with more than 1,080 in-person ballots cast and about 250 absentee ballots returned so far, but data shows that younger voters continue to have the lowest turnout.

In order for our elections to work, voters must have confidence that their votes will count," said Secretary of State McGrane. "Today we demonstrated our commitment to ensuring just that. I’m proud of my team and grateful to Elmore County for partnering with us as we’ve worked to correct this error and investigate what went wrong on election day.

North Idaho’s largest Republican Party may have lost every race it contested in Coeur d’Alene in this year’s municipal election, but that doesn’t mean Republicans aren’t still in charge.