District and precinct lines to stay the same this election
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SANDPOINT — No changes are being made to Bonner County’s district or precinct lines this year after commissioners voted Tuesday to keep them the same.
Bonner County Clerk Mike Rosedale presented voter information to the board at its Tuesday meeting, telling the commissioners there were no proposed changes for the districts this year.
“The actual breakdown of the populous — the registered voters — is even tighter than it was last time,” he said.
Steve Bradshaw’s District 1 has the most registered voters in the county at 10,987; Asia Williams’s District 2 has 10,876 registered voters; and Luke Omodt’s District 3 has the lowest number of voters at 10,319.
These numbers, Rosedale said, make voting percentages very close, with the first district at 34.1%, District 2 at 33.8% and Omodt’s district at 32.1%.
“That’s as tight as we can get it,” he said. “So that would be set until we adjust it next time.”
Additionally, Rosedale said the same stood for the county’s precincts. Precincts, the clerk said, divide the county into small, convenient workable micro-divisions. The county’s districts are larger areas that can encompass multiple precincts. All of the county’s 30 precincts are divided up in a geographically logical way between these three commissioner districts, Rosedale said.
“There are no changes to the existing precincts,” he added. “So this is adopting the current precincts for this election cycle as well.”
Motions for both the districts and precincts passed unanimously and all lines will remain the same for 2024.
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