Montana Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
- Montana's Supreme Court will allow signatures of inactive voters on ballot petitions for the November election, including one advocating for abortion rights.
- District Court Judge Mike Menahan found that Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen's office wrongly rejected these signatures after they were submitted.
- The groups Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights and Montanans for Election Reform claimed the state had accepted inactive voter signatures for decades.
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Montana Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
Montana's Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would allow the signatures of inactive voters to count on petitions seeking to qualify constitutional initiatives for the November ballot.
Montana Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
Montana's Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would allow the signatures of inactive voters to count on petitions seeking to qualify constitutional initiatives for the November ballot, including one to protect abortion rights.


Supreme Court unswayed by secretary of state in petition lawsuit
The Montana Supreme Court Tuesday rejected Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen’s request that it intervene in a recent lawsuit stemming from her office’s handling of the 2024 ballot issue petition process. Jacobsen’s request to the court last week came days after her attorneys helped negotiate the terms of a restraining order in Lewis and Clark County District Court barring her office from rejecting ballot petition signatures from inactive voter…
Montana Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Supreme Court is allowing the signatures of inactive voters to count on petitions seeking to qualify constitutional initiatives for the November ballot, including one to protect abortion rights. A state judge ruled last week that the Secretary of State’s Office wrongly changed election rules to reject inactive voter signatures from three ballot initiatives. The secretary asked the Montana Supreme C…
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