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Tribal members in Montana sued state and county election officials Friday to get them to run polling places on the Fort Peck Reservation, as the current nearest locations are 20 to 30 miles away at county courthouses.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear next week a challenge from pro-voting groups to a Montana law that is currently blocked.
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen (R) is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in an ongoing legal battle over two voter suppression laws enacted in 2021.
An executive order issued in 2021 by President Biden to promote voter registration is still drawing rebuke from GOP-led states in court.
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen (R) will still be required to count “inactive” voters’ signatures for crucial abortion and democracy reform ballot initiatives after a state court ruling this morning.
Republican attorneys general pose an ongoing threat to democracy as they continue their attempts to weaken the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and more.
In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case out of Pennsylvania pushing the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American elections.
A federal court has temporarily blocked Montana’s Republican-backed voter suppression law that requires voters to cancel their voter registration in other counties or states before registering to vote in Montana.
Today in a sweeping 4-3 decision ahead of the 2024 elections, the Montana Supreme Court struck down four major voter suppression laws.
On Friday, Sept. 29, Montana Public Interest Research Group and the Montana Federation of Public Employees filed a federal lawsuit challenging anti-voter provisions of Montana voting law, House Bill 892.
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