Legislative committee continues to press secretary of state for info on mailer costs, voter files
Legislators on the State Administration and Veterans’ Affairs Interim Committee on Monday discussed subpoenaing information from Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen about the costs of mailing 467,000 postcards featuring an image of Jacobsen and President Donald Trump and Jacobsen’s response to a U.S. Department of Justice request for sensitive Montana voter information, among other issues.
“I have to express disappointment in the memo we received. I think at least four times last meeting I asked for a source of the funding and the quantity of funding to pay for the postcard mailer, and that is not in this document,” said Rep. Kelly Kortum, D-Bozeman. “And since then, we have learned more about doings in the SOS office, including previously unreported knowledge that our voter data have been sent to the feds at least once. We are the oversight committee for the secretary of state, and we hadn’t heard about that despite it happening for the last year. Why is that? Omitting something that important seems very mysterious, given what our relationship is supposed to be with an executive branch office.”
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