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Montana bill would shift school-election filing and certification windows to ease ballot printing
Summary
House Bill 406 would standardize and extend filing and ballot-certification deadlines for school trustee and special-district elections; election officials and the Office of Public Instruction backed a friendly amendment moving a 37-day certification deadline to 40 days to avoid weekend cutoffs and give printers an extra business day.
Representative Fiona Nave on Friday opened House Bill 406, which she described as a technical cleanup requested by the Office of Public Instruction and county clerks and recorders to align filing and certification timelines for school and special-district elections.
Nicole Thuot, an election specialist and education data manager at the Office of Public Instruction, told the committee the bill shifts candidate filing windows to “145 days before to 85 days before” for regular candidates and aligns write-in deadlines so filings occur when schools are in session. “That allows time to make sure we have the right…
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