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Montana bill would let county election administrators use trained judges from anywhere in the county for school elections
Summary
House Bill 125 would let county election administrators staff school-district elections with any trained, certified election judge in the county rather than limiting the pool to judges who live inside the school district; sponsors and county clerks said the change would ease staffing but would not change who runs a school election.
Representative David Beatty, sponsor of House Bill 125, told the House State Administration Committee the bill would allow a county election administrator conducting a school-district election to staff that election with any trained, certified election judge in the county who is not ineligible under MCA 20-20-109(2), rather than being limited to judges who reside inside the district.
“The purpose of this bill is to increase the size of the pool of qualified election judges who are able to help conduct school…
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