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HELENA — Montana will open satellite voting offices on the Crow, Northern Cheyenne and Fort Belknap Indian reservations in October as part of a settlement in a federal voting-rights lawsuit.
The offices will be open twice a week for late registration and for voters to cast absentee ballots for the Nov. 4 general elections.
Last year, 12 Indian plaintiffs sued Secretary of State Linda McCulloch and elections officials in Blaine, Rosebud and Big Horn counties. They argued they had to drive long distances to county courthouses — in some instances, a more than 100 miles roundtrip — to register lat...
Reader Comments(2)
jkelleherHDN writes:
The Havre Daily News recently did an editorial recently contending that mail-in ballots would solve these and other problems.
06/15/2014, 5:33 pm
Willy writes:
If the legislature would just pass a law to make all elections by mail ballot, this whole problem would all be nullified. Why does the HDN not look into that angle?
06/13/2014, 3:30 pm