. Idaho lawmakers are again taking aim at the state’s ballot initiative process, with a Senate committee Friday introducing a new bill to make it much harder to qualify any voter initiative for the Idaho ballot. The bill, proposed by Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, contains an emergency clause making it effective immediately upon passage. It would require ballot initiatives be signed by at least 6% of qualified electors in all 35 of Idaho’s legislative districts. Current law requires 6% of qualified electors statewide, as of the last general election, plus, within that, 6% from 18 of the 35 legislative districts. “The population centers, currently you can get signatures for 18 districts in just four counties,” Vick told the Senate State Affairs Committee. “There’s 44 counties in the state and I think it needs to be a little more diversified than that.”