State agrees not to enforce ‘double registration’ law in order to settle federal voting rights suit
Stickers for voters who cast their ballots at the Trade Center at the Flathead County Fairgrounds on Tuesday, Nov. 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
The Montana Secretary of State’s Office and the Commissioner of Political Practices have come to an agreement with two groups which successfully challenged a 2023 law that would have made it crime for residents to be registered to vote in two places simultaneously, even if it didn’t result in double voting.
As federal court judge Brian M. Morris made clear in the stipulated agreement signed late last week, double voting in Montana is already a crime. However, House Bill 892 made it a crime to be registered in one place and voting in another, something that evidence and testimony says happens all the time for a variety of reasons.
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