How Montanans voted, precinct by precinct
SOS notes second-highest use of same-day registration in 2020
Between Oct. 27 and Nov. 2, 7,790 Montanans in 52 of the state’s 56 counties either registered to vote or updated their voter status. On Election Day, the total was 8,172 — the second highest figure in a general election since Montana implemented same-day registration in 2006.
Lawsuit challenges new election laws
Two voting law bills passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte this spring are being challenged in Yellowstone County district court.
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Gianforte approves changes to Montana election laws
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Missoula ballot allegations generate oblique response
Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen has issued an ‘open letter’ in apparent response to allegations of discrepancies in Missoula County election results.
Religious exemption revived in committee
Senate Bill 162 would have exempted religious organizations from the state’s campaign reporting requirements. It was tabled in mid-March. Now it’s back, piggybacked onto a new bill just days before a key legislative deadline.
Citizens allege election discrepancy
A records request for ballot envelopes in Missoula County has generated allegations about the 2020 election results, and given legislators fodder for debates about changing statewide election laws.
House forwards contentious voter ID bill
House Bill 169 would add additional identification requirements that critics say would disenfranchise students, the elderly and indigenous Montanans.
A court divided?
House Bill 325 would ask voters to approve election of state Supreme Court justices by districts, rather than statewide. Supporters say the change would encourage better representation on the state’s most powerful bench. Critics call it ‘judicial gerrymandering.’
Raising the ballot initiative bar
Two bills that would double the signature requirements to qualify initiatives for the ballot pass committee on party-line vote.
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Eliminating the enforcer
House Bill 535 to the House State Administration Committee Thursday. The bill seeks to replace the governor-appointed Commissioner of Political Practices with a four-person bipartisan council selected by legislative leadership, and to transfer oversight of campaign finance reporting to the Secretary of State.
Nitpick or necessity?
The biggest change in SB 224 is a repeal of Montana’s cap on candidate contributions from political committees.
Debating integrity
Legislators in the 2021 session agree that Montana elections should be fair and secure. But debate on proposals from both sides of the aisle has revealed powerful fallout from the 2020 election — and partisan disagreement on solutions.
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Week 8: Capitol reporters discuss taxes, public health and labor unions.
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Week 7: Capitol reporters discuss vaccines, the future of Colstrip and bills dealing with public assistance programs.
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Week 6: Capitol reporters discuss bills that would cut taxes, weaken labor unions, and end same-day voter registration.
Same-day voter registration debated
Lawmakers heard testimony framing a proposed end to same-day voter registration as either essential to election integrity or an assault on democracy.
Electoral College vote certified
Biden presidency confirmed. Montana Sen. Steve Daines backtracked and did not object. Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale did.
Withholding evidence
The two Republican members of Montana’s congressional delegation didn’t answer questions Tuesday about their stated intent to object to the results of tomorrow’s Electoral College vote count, and about increasingly radical attempts by President Donald Trump in recent days to overturn the results of the election he lost to Joe Biden.
Daines says he’ll reject ‘disputed’ Electoral College votes barring further review
Montana’s Republican senator calls for an election commission that could give GOP-controlled legislatures a path to reallocate electoral votes in states won by President-elect Joe Biden.
Nipped in the bud?
Many conservative lawmakers oppose the legalization of marijuana, an illegal drug under federal law. But they are discovering obstacles to simply passing bills to reverse the initiatives when state legislatures return to work in January. Some marijuana opponents, realizing the limitations to altering a constitutional amendment, are turning to the courts or local officials to undo the measures or at least blunt the effects of legal pot.
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