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AG Knudsen’s ballot language misleads voters

by Dean McGovern
| October 26, 2025 12:00 AM

Montanans have long supported our nonpartisan courts. This support cuts across party, across generations and across the state. Public polling has consistently shown that 65% of Montanans want to keep partisanship out of judicial elections.

But for several years now, our right to judicial elections free from political party influence has been under attack. MontPIRG, which has been fighting to protect the rights of Montana voters since 1981, has stood up to these attempts by the Legislature to turn our judicial elections partisan. That’s why we joined the growing coalition behind Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts and their ballot measure to protect nonpartisan judicial elections.

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