Montanans’ right to vote is on the line
Montana’s secretary of state is Montana’s chief election officer, charged with ensuring free and fair elections. But Secretary Christi Jacobsen’s recent efforts to interfere with our right to vote is alarming and poses the danger of the proverbial fox guarding the hen house.
The secretary of state recently overturned decades of Montana practice and procedure. Without notice to the public, she unilaterally altered the state’s computer code to reject signatures on citizen petitions of lawfully registered Montana voters simply because they did not vote in the last election. It was a particularly nefarious move because she did so after the period to gather petitions had expired so that additional signatures could not be gathered.
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