The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee has introduced SB 1185. It moves the filing deadline for primary candidates from March to the last Friday in January. Because the non-presidential independent candidate petition deadline is also set on that deadline, that would cause the petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates to move from March to January.
An irony is that the petition deadline for a new party in Idaho is not until late August, so if this bill passes, the disparity between independent candidates and new parties would be extreme.
This is going from one ridiculously early petition deadline to an even more ridiculously early petition deadline.
New technology makes it possible to create new ballots quickly. There is no need for these absurdly early deadlines. Are there still typesetters setting the type by hand?