died, led to a lot of kind tributes to him in montana from people across the state, people across the ideological spectrum. but one of the practical nuts and bolts and indeed financial consequences of mike fellows dying right before that election, after he had qualified for the libertarian line on the ballot in that congressional election is that it cost counties across montana a lot of 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
it still had a really big policaimpact on the state of montana, when ke fellows unexpectedly died in the leadup to the election. only 59 years old, he was driving home from a campaign event on a monday night in september, he got into a head-on car crash, and mike fellows died, led to a lot of kind tributes to him in montana from people across the state, people across the ideological spectrum. but one of the practical nuts and bolts and indeed financial consequences of mike fellows dying right before that election, after he had qualified for the libertarian line on the ballot in that congressional election is that it cost counties across montana a lot of