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Numerous concerns have arisen with the Idaho Republican Party’s more combative but less persuasive approach. When raising these concerns, I get a repeated question: What do you have against Dorothy Moon?

Editor’s Note: The subject matter of this guest column does not necessarily reflect the on opinion or beliefs of The Herald Journal.

The Dorothy Moon faction of the Republican Party has enlisted Sarah Palin to speak in Idaho Falls on Saturday about the supposed evils of ranked choice voting. Palin’s 2022 loss of her statewide race for Congress should provide a ray of hope to the vast number of reasonable, pragmatic Idaho Republicans who feel they have been pushed out of their party by Moon’s narrow, super-committed extremist branch of the GOP. Palin did not lose because of ranked choice. Rather, she simply fell out of favor with Alaska voters.

If history proves anything it shows if civil rights, human rights, equality and even the right to live are to be denied to a class of people, they must first be stripped of their inherent value as human beings.

The word “precinct” has two roots: “pre” — before, and “cinct” — from the Latin “cingere”, to surround and contain (the root of “cinch”). At its broadest usage, it merely means an area to check before you know it is secure.