HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Most of Montana s Republican lawmakers are urging their leadership to appoint a special committee to investigate the security of the state s voting system.
EastIdahoNews.com file photo HELENA, Montana (AP) Most of Montana’s Republican lawmakers are urging their leadership to appoint a special committee to investigate the security of the state’s voting system. The effort is led by GOP legislators who are pushing false theories of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, the Montana State News Bureau […]
Legislation signed into law last week allows any Montana voter to bring a petition placing a minor party on the ballot, which Republicans framed as fixing a deficiency in state code that thwarted their attempt to qualify the Green Party for the 2020 general election.
Senate Bill 350, sponsored by Sen. Greg Hertz, R-Polson, was among a handful of measures requested by the new Republican Secretary of State, Christi Jacobsen, this past legislative session. It also sets out deadlines for petitions that seek to place a third party on the ballot for statewide elections.
Last year, the state Supreme Court ruled 5-2 against then-Secretary of State Corey Stapleton and tossed the Green Party off the 2020 general election ballot, finding the third party hadnât authorized a signature-gathering effort bankrolled by the Montana GOP. Minor parties are sometimes seen as siphoning votes away from the two major parties, and Democrats have argued the left-leaning party s inclusion was designed t
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Montana bill would make voting easier
Author:
Amy Beth Hanson
Associated Press
HELENA, Mont. Emotions ran high Friday as a Montana House committee heard a bill seeking to make it easier for Native Americans to vote.
The bill proposes putting into law and advancing terms of a settlement in a voting rights lawsuit and guidance issued by the secretary of state s office for counties and tribes to comply with the settlement, said Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy of Crow Agency, the bill s sponsor.
After the hearing, the bill was amended to add a $5,000 appropriation to give the committee more time to work on it without missing next week s transmittal deadline for non-appropriations bills.