Judge Deals Blow To Absentee Ballot Gathering Restrictions
Montana Free Press
A Billings judge struck a blow Wednesday, July 8, against a Montana law restricting how mail ballots can be gathered, siding with a coalition of tribes and Native American advocacy organizations that had argued the rule, passed by voters in 2018, suppressed Native voters.
The July 7 order, a preliminary injunction, doesn’t bring a lawsuit filed by the Native groups to