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There wasn't extra money to pay for that, they are way in the hole in terms of what they spent on elections and unexpectedly they have to run another statewide special election to fill this congressional seat. where is the money coming from to do that? the counties have to cough up that money. they don't have that money. the county clerks have an idea, they've been lobbying for it statewide and writing op-eds and testifying is at the legislature. their idea is this in montana when there are school board elections, local elections, they're run without the expense of opening up the polling place...

Legislature. their idea is this in montana when there are school board elections, local elections, they're run without the expense of opening up the polling places, run instead by mail, montana is a huge state with not that many people in it. running an election by mail just makes economic sense in a state where the people are that spread out. and montana elections administrators have a lot of experience of running elections by mail because of it. why not do the congressional election as well, just mail everybody a ballot? here's the tea time county clerk and recorder making the case, "as repr...

Attention and the reaction of local officials, some of whom you showed who are not in this really to make partisan points but try to do a difficult job of running elections. those kind of push backs can make a difference. already the state of florida just recently said, maybe we ought to double check this before we start purging people. the more people yell, maybe the more impact it will have. once we're done with the partisan shenanigans which we're seeing in florida so much this year and elsewhere, we really ought to modernize our voter registration system. if we put aside these fights and s...

You showed who are not in this really to make partisan points but try to do a difficult job of running elections. those kind of push backs can make a difference. already the state of florida just recently said, maybe we ought to double check this before we start purging people. the more people yell, maybe the more impact it will have. once we're done with the partisan shenanigans which we're seeing in florida so much this year and elsewhere, we really ought to modernize our voter registration system. if we put aside these fights and said let's make sure that everybody that is eligible to vote ...