to happen? well that s what s fairly shocking, to have the republican party chair, who is also a sitting legislator, brazenly acknowledge that he wants to spend more taxpayer dollars with the hope of getting fewer voters? i mean that s not only wrong for montana, it s wrong for the country. we need to be figuring out ways to encourage people to vote, certainly not take away their voting franchise. i was trying to follow the history of this proposal and i read all these on-eds and looked at the testimony from the county clerks and administrators, people who run these elections around the state, and it doesn t seem like it was offered as a partisan thing. it doesn t seem like it was offered as even a propos to try to increase voter turnout in the ate. seems like the county, like we re out ofonday, the november election was really expensive. we d like to do this, it s cheaper, and we ve got experience with it. it feels like it became partisan when it just started as a technocratic fis