The Idaho Democratic Party has postponed the election of a new state party chair until Aug. 1; Vice Chair Jeanne Buell will remain acting chair in the meantime. Former Chairman Larry Kenck stepped down due to health reasons; thus far, three hopefuls, Dean Ferguson, Randy Humberto Johnson and John Looze, have put in their names to run. The party said the delay came for technical reasons, as while reviewing party rules, it discovered that it must set a series of in-person meetings to take the vote rather than hold the vote electronically; the schedule for those in-person meetings hasn’t yet been set.