Kevin Halverson, who was elected Sheriff of Minidoka County, Idaho, as a Republican in 2004, and re-elected as a Republican in 2008 and 2012, has changed his voter registration to Libertarian. See this story. Minidoka County has a population of 20,069 and is primarily an agricultural county in the Snake River Valley.
Minidoka County has not traditionally been a center of strength for the Idaho Libertarian Party. In 2012 Gary Johnson polled 1.45% of the vote in Idaho, but only .79% in Minidoka County. In the ten presidential elections in which the party has been on the Idaho ballot, the county gave a smaller share of the vote to the Libertarian nominee than that nominee did in the state as a whole, except in 1976 and 2008.
Halverson’s term will be up in 2016.
Good choice! 🙂
That’s fantastic news!
A journey of a thousand miles is made up of many steps. This is a welcome step.
Jeff Daiell
Good move there. Hopefully more people will start ditching the Democrats and Republicans for the Libertarians and Greens. The major parties are like a ship’s captain at a steering wheel, counting the money some person paid him or her to make the ship go faster, and too “busy” to see the incoming iceberg or reef.
Yikes. How many gigabytes in the BAN database of old stats ???
Any election results from 1776 in such database ???
Welcome to the Libertarian Party, Sheriff Halverson!
He must be thinking it’s time to retire.
#5, the story is hardly “old”.
And statistics going back to 1776 would, indeed, come in handy quite often.
Jeff D.