There's election trouble brewing in the Montana Secretary of State's office. . .

Christi Jacobsen, Montana Secretary of State, is a Helena native and a member of the Republican Party. She graduated from the University of Montana 1997 - 2000 and from Carroll College 1993-1997. 

"Election officials in Montana are ringing alarm bells that the Secretary of State's plan to move forward with new election software at the start of 2022 cold leave them with a largely untested, unworkable system for next year's federal elections.

Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen is planning to replace a statewide election database system that tracks voter registrations and interacts with nearly all levels of running elections, from updating precincts to printing and accepting ballots, by January 2022. 

But during a meeting of the Legislature's State Administration and Veterans Affairs Interim Committee last week, the top county election officials from Cascade and Ravalli counties said that months of delays and a missed deadline for a major test during this year's general elections has created the need to push back that switch-over date. They also indicated Jacobsen's office has been unresponsive to their concerns."                                                                         from Helena Independent Record

Folks would be less concerned if the Gianforte administration was considered more trustworthy about the future of Montana elections. During the 2021 Legislative Session, they took pages from the Trump Playbook of Voter Suppression and  passed laws to make voting more difficult here in Montana.

Now we have another election crisis to worry about. This system is brand new and has already shown some unreliable quirks in primary testing.  That brought the problem to the surface. 

Montanans need to get fired up. This could be one more Republican plot to manipulate our election results!





 

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