Victoria Eavis

A disability rights nonprofit and an elderly advocacy organization are suing the secretary of state over a recently enacted law that they say could disproportionately harm their ability to vote absentee.

This complaint marks the third lawsuit — but the fourth bill — filed over elections-related bills since the 69th legislative session adjourned earlier this year.

House Bill 719 , sponsored by Columbia Falls Republican Rep. Braxton Mitchell and backed by Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen's office, is the latest bill to be entangled in a lawsuit. The main provision of that new law requires Montanans voting absentee — which accounts for the majority of ballots cast in Montana — to now write their birthdate on the outermost envelope. Like a signature comparison which alrea

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