Montana’s 2025 municipal elections were run transparently and securely across five counties, but a new absentee ballot birth-year requirement increased ballot r

The Montana Supreme Court has twice rejected Attorney General Austin Knudsen's revisions to statements accompanying nonpartisan court election initiatives.

A second ballot initiative that would ensure Montana’s judicial elections are nonpartisan is advancing. The initiative was tied up in court when its backers and Attorney General Austin Knudsen disagreed over its wording.

The Montana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a group sponsoring a proposed ballot measure that would require the state’s judicial elections remain nonpartisan.