money for that election. there s a law in montana that s very strict about ballots for every election having to be absolutely correct so when mike fellows died just a few weeks before the election every single county in the state had to shred all of their ballots that they had printed already and they had to reprint all new ballots for the november election, and that, among other things, made the 2016 november election in montana the most expensive election that state has ever had. added to that factor about that guy passing away, it was also a very high turnout election. it was an unusually long ballot in montana this year, because they had a bunch of stuff to vote on in the state, but all in all, usually the statewide cost of running a statewide election in montana is about $2 million. this past november it was about $3 million. and the counties in montana were really not happy about that extra expense. there s mic pile of money that comes in from the federal government or even fthe