Proposal to change primary elections on 2024 ballot advances with state high court order
Montana voters are one step closer to getting to decide if they want to change primary elections so the top four vote-getters advance — regardless of party.
Currently, Montana voters in a primary choose which party’s ballot they want to vote, but in August, a group called Montanans for Election Reform Action Fund proposed a constitutional initiative to change the way primaries are held.
Attorney General Austin Knudsen incorrectly found the ballot issue, BI-12, to be illegal. He argued it tried to make more than one amendment to the constitution, but the Montana Supreme Court disagreed.
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