Tired of being one of the very last states to vote in primary presidential elections, Montana is again debating whether it should go to the polls in early spring or even late winter.

A proposed ballot initiative to keep Montana’s judicial elections nonpartisan is advancing after the state Supreme Court ruled that the attorney general overstepped by rewriting the measure.

Daoud is a veteran Libertarian candidate for federal office, who made headlines in 2024 when President Donald Trump asked him to withdraw from Montana’s U.S. Senate race to clear a victory path for Tim Sheehy, the Republican who prevailed. Daoud declined.

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, the state’s top election official, says her office will use a federal database to step up efforts to check registered voters for U.S. citizenship.

Several of you responded to my “Sunday thought” yesterday by saying that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010,

A new law passed in the 2025 Montana legislative session required voters to add their birth year to their ballots for the November 2025 municipal elections.

Three- and four-way elections tip toward candidates with comparatively liberal backing in Billings and Kalispell.