HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge said Tuesday that the Secretary of State’s Office erred in changing the rules governing whose signatures should count
Lewis and Clark District Court Judge Mike Menehan speaks during a temporary restraining order hearing in a suit against the Montana Secretary of State brought by Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights and Montanans for Election Reform over ballot initiative signature exclusions on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at the Lewis and Clark County Courthouse in Helena, Mont. HELENA, Mont.
The change was made after the signatures had been turned in to counties and after some of the signatures had been verified. “When you’re talking about the rights of people to participate in government, that’s a fundamental right that I think, as a judge, my duty is to uphold that right and give life to it and preserve it,” Menahan said in saying he would grant a temporary restraining order.
A week after the deadline to turn in petitions to counties, Jacobsen’s office told an election clerk that she should not accept the signatures of inactive voters. The clerk emailed the response to other clerks. Knudsen re-wrote the abortion language to say the proposed amendment, in part, would “allow post-viability abortions up to birth,” “eliminates the State’s compelling interest in preserving prenatal life,” and “may increase the number of taxpayer-funded abortions.”
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