Montana lawmakers consider bill to allow early ballot counts

March 21, 2019

Montana’s election administrators are asking lawmakers to allow them to open and begin counting absentee ballots earlier because the number of mailed-in ballots continues to increase. The Senate has passed a bill that would allow absentee ballots to be opened starting on the Thursday before Election Day and for the counting of absentee ballots to start the Monday before Election Day. Amy Beth Hanson, Montana Public Radio.

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