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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170307:05:51:00

zinke to a vote by mail election. fiscally conservative plan. that s good. because both the house and senate in montana are controlled by republicans. but opposition from an unlikely source. montana s republican leadership, meaning the chairmen of the party, last week as this bill for a mail-in election gained steam, the republican party chairman blasted this out. all mail ballots give the democrats an inherent advantage. vote by mail was designed to increase participation rates of lower propensity voters. they may be well intended but this bill could be the death of our effort to make montana a reliably republican state. so the state party chairman is saying we can t vote by mail, too many people will vote. that will make it too likely that a democrat might win that election. nevertheless, the republican bill to make it a vote-by-mail election, it passed the state senate last week. that bill now awaits its fate in the statehouse. our next guest says the bill, which she co-sponsored,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170307:05:55:00

have a mail-ballot election. state representative geraldine more cost effective and easier. i m sorry. we ve got this awkward satellite delay which is why i stepped on you twice there, ma am. i m sorry. i want to thank you for coming to studio tonight to talk to us about this. i know that tomorrow the legislature s back in session. we ll be watching this closely. an interesting interparty fight there that you ve got among your fellow montana republicans. keep us apprised, ma am. nice to meet you. yes, i will. thank you. thank you. be interesting to watch this tomorrow. state legislature, state house is back in montana tomorrow. the bill sponsor you just saw there has got a fight for her bill, the leadership of her party is going to be trying to kill this thing. republicans fighting republicans over whether or not they want a cost-effective way that makes it easy to vote. i love state politics. all right. stay with us. more ahead.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170307:05:53:00

office with their vote-ballot or won t drop it off at the courthouse as opposed to democrats? i understand you are a former you re, you ve done this work at the county level. i ve been struck by these good government arguments, these fiscally conservative arguments that have been made by county clerks across the state. just saying, listen, montana knows how to do this, this is an easy way to do it, familiar to everybody and we can do this without controversy. is there any substantive objection to it other than the party chairman saying that it might help democrats? there s not anything that s wrong with mail ballots i can think of, we ve been doing mail ballots since 1983 in the state. most the school elections are held that way and which are mostly the bond elections. any time there is a special bond election, they re usually held by mail so you can get a better turnout. because that s what happens with the mail ballot election. you get a way better turnout. and all the municipal

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170307:05:50:00

congress in montana is expen expensive. and they ve got to pick a new one now because of ryan zinke being elevated to the cabinet, they got to pick one now in a special election. montana doesn t budget for something like a statewide special election. and i should also tell you that the budgets are already a little crimped, anyway, because in montana they had an unusually expensive election in november, that busted the budget of a lot of counties that had to pay to administer these things. it s all a big bummer. there is a neat solution. they can hold the election via a mill-in ballot. montana already knows how to do it, local elections, school bond issues, pretty much everything except federal elections are already done by mail. local county clerks across the state have been advocating that they do this as a mail-in election. conducting the election by mail would conservatively save taxpayers state wide between a half million and three quarters of a million. that s a cheap easy way t

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170307:02:49:45

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