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Montana Supreme Court says no to Election Day voter registration
The Montana Supreme Court put another twist Tuesday in the ongoing legal battle over new election administration laws, overturning a district court injunction and once again terminating Election Day voter registration.

New allegations surface in Missoula County election
Last week, the Missoula County Republican Party determined there was “no voter fraud” in Missoula’s 2020 election. Now Rep. Brad Tschida has responded with new claims of incompetence or deliberate wrongdoing on the part of the county election office.
Weighing the evidence in Montana’s voting rights lawsuit
Missoula County GOP to Republican election skeptics: ‘no voter fraud’
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Who’s running for the Montana Legislature this year
Republicans are eyeing supermajority control of the Capitol, and Democrats are vowing to put up a fight. Here’s who’s filed to campaign for a seat in the 2023 Montana Legislature.

Federal judges order new map for 2022 utility board election
A panel of federal judges has ordered Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen to use a court-drawn district map for this year’s Public Service Commission elections, shifting the district assignments for four Montana counties days before the March 14 candidate filing deadline for the two PSC seats up for election this year.

Election crimes alleged in Phillips County
Last week, Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen announced that two people had been arrested and pleaded guilty to alleged election crimes in Phillips County during the 2021 municipal election. In fact, multiple sources confirm, neither was arrested, nor did they plead guilty.

Republican minority presses for election investigation in ‘court of public opinion’
On Tuesday, a group of Republican state lawmakers identifying themselves as an “ad hoc election integrity committee” convened at a hotel in downtown Helena to hear presentations and public comment questioning the security of Montana’s elections. One of those lawmakers, Sen. Theresa Manzella, R-Stevensville, told Montana Free Press that the meeting, which was not a…

Missoula GOP aims to fact-check election fraud allegations
For nearly a year, Republican Rep. Brad Tschida’s allegations of discrepancies in Missoula County’s 2020 election have gone unresolved. Now, citing voters’ professions of waning faith, the Missoula County Republican Party has hatched a plan to determine if there’s any truth to his claims.

Taxpayers foot bill for legislators’ ‘election fraud’ trip
In August, six Montana Republican lawmakers attended a South Dakota symposium on 2020 election fraud hosted by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell. Records obtained by Montana Free Press show that two of those lawmakers received taxpayer-funded reimbursements for the trip.
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Shared State: The politics of death and dying
In 2009, Montana was caught up in a heated national debate over whether terminally ill patients could expedite their deaths by taking lethal, physician-prescribed medication. More than a decade later, the state is still mired in disagreement about medical aid in dying, in part because courts and elected lawmakers have sidestepped the political hot-potato. Meanwhile,…

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Election critics press their case for special legislative committee
Speaking to Montana’s legislative leadership Monday, Sen. Theresa Manzella and Rep. Brad Tschida pressed their case for a special committee to investigate the state’s 2020 election. The appeals came after the pair failed to convince Attorney General Austin Knudsen to sign a proposed lawsuit crafted by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell challenging the results of last…

Election fraud argument gets an audience with Montana’s Department of Justice
Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s office has confirmed a previously unreported meeting with MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and election skeptic state Sen. Theresa Manzella, R-Stevensville, on Nov. 10. At the time, Lindell was attempting to gain the support of state attorneys general in a lawsuit challenging the 2020 presidential election.

Pulling back the curtain on Missoula County’s election processes
Earlier this year, a group of Missoula citizens led by Rep. Brad Tschida leveled allegations of voting irregularities in the county’s 2020 election. Missoula County Election Administrator Bradley Seaman is trying to combat those claims by opening the election process up to public scrutiny.