Across Montana, election officials are warning they’ve seen a number of voters tripped up by a new state requirement this year: that mail voters write their birth year when signing ballot envelopes.

Montana voters are having their first encounter with a new requirement to provide their birth year on the back of mail-in ballot envelopes alongside the previously required signature line. The change is a result of a legislative mandate aimed at enhancing mail election security.

There are four candidates for two seats on the Great Falls City Commission: Pete Anderson, Joe McKenney, Matt Pipinich, and Casey Schreiner.

The western U.S. House district race is likely to be the state’s most competitive federal race of 2026. Cleveland in town hall meetings and Rains’s introductory literature tell voters that Tester prevailed in western Montana in his 2024 bid while losing the state as a whole by 43,000 votes.

Some of Montana’s largest counties are rejecting more ballots than usual this election. A new requirement is tripping up voters. State law now requires mail-in voters to write their birth year in addition to their signature.

Three lawsuits have been filed against the attorney general over ballot language rewrites to three issues that aim to keep judicial races in Montana nonpartisan, following on the heels of a legislative session where lawmakers brought several bills aimed at doing the opposite.

Just because Montana is a red state, doesn’t mean residents are satisfied with Republican leadership according to a new annual poll released Tuesday. Montana State University-Billings, which has conducted the annual Mountain States Poll on residents since 1989,

A new Montana law requiring a voter’s birth year has led to county election officials rejecting an abnormal number of ballots for this year’s local elections.

The ballot question asks if the city should allow only ground-based or novelty items, while banning fireworks that leave the ground or explode, including rockets, shells, and Roman candles.

A new poll released Tuesday shows Montanans, and Americans in general, agree that political spending, including dark money in politics, has a corrosive effect on government, and lessens the trust in government.

Attorney General Austin Knudsen rejected a proposed ballot initiative aimed at ending corporate money in Montana political campaigns on Friday, deeming it legally insufficient. The initiative’s primary advocate, former State Commissioner of Political Practices Jeff Mangan, said in a Monday interview that he plans to challenge the decision in court.