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Montana bill would make voting easier Author: Amy Beth Hanson Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — Emotions ran high Friday as a Montana House committee heard a bill seeking to make it easier for Native Americans to vote. The bill proposes putting into law and advancing terms of a settlement in a voting rights lawsuit and guidance issued by the secretary of states office for counties and tribes to comply with the settlement, said Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy of Crow Agency, the bills sp...

A ballot drop box at the county courthouse in Hardin, Mont. on Nov. 3, 2020. Montana lawmakers heard passionate testimony Friday on a bill seeking to increase Native American voting rights and access to the polls. Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart-Peregoy introduced House Bill 613 with a brief history lesson on why Native Americans were one of the last groups in the country to receive the right to vote in the 1980s. "This is the Montana American Indian voting rights act to ensure that this generat...

HELENA — Emotions ran high Friday as a Montana House committee heard a bill seeking to make it easier for Native Americans to vote. The bill proposes putting into law and advancing terms of a settlement in a voting rights lawsuit and guidance issued by the secretary of states office for counties and tribes to comply with the settlement, said Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy of Crow Agency, the bills sponsor. After the hearing, the bill was amended to add a $5,000 appropriation to giv...