by Archie Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis
Are you better off due to the 4-year, 6 million plus continuous tax dollars being spent by the State of Montana trying to limit your access to the ballot box and the citizen initiative process? (https://montanafreepress.org/2024/08/30/secretary-jacobsen-seeks-u-s-supreme-court-action-on-2021-montana-election-laws) Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen’s appeal to the US Supreme Court of same day voter registration and paid ballot collection is the latest wasted expensive litigation boondoggle.
To date, restricting same day election registration, paid election ballot collection, early distribution of mail in ballots to minors, inactive voter signatures and new voter ID requirements have all been judged unconstitutional by the Montana Supreme Court. Secretary of State Christi Jacobson and Attorney General Austin Knudsen have hired a Virginia law firm to further waste money appealing to the US Supreme Court. Why should taxpayers continue to pay for this lost cause campaign year stunt?
Neither Christi Jacobsen nor Austin Knudsen should be re-elected.
Jesse James Mullen, candidate for the Secretary of State and Ben Alke, candidate for Attorney General, are the fiscally responsible protectors of your voting rights and taxpayers’ pocket book deserving of your vote.