Elections

It is primary election day, and only about 19,000 out of over 48,000 absentee ballots had been turned in to the Missoula Elections Office as of Saturday.

The big primary election day for Montana this year is June 5th, but with a week to go, turnout in Missoula looks sparse.

With lots of changes from Federal Court and the Montana State Legislature, county elections offices have to plan for an uncertain future.

The Missoula County Elections Office will be relocating from the County Courthouse to the Elections Center at the Missoula County Fairgrounds on April 5.

The Montana governor's race is still too close to call, Ryan Zinke easily defeated Denise Juneau for the U.S. House, and Republicans fared well over the rest of the statewide races.

The Missoula County Elections Office will be holding public testing of its voting systems this week, with the public and the media invited to watch.

The divisive presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is putting political rifts between parties and genders on display across the country.

There has been some confusion about Missoula County residents not receiving absentee ballots in the mail, even though the primary is Tuesday.

Butte-Silver Bow officials have identified the victims in an apparent murder-suicide in the Butte suburb of Ramsey as 70 year-oldLarry farrell and his wife, 48 year-old Michelle Farrell.

Former Missoula City Councilman Dave Strohmaier will officially announce his candidacy for the Missoula County Commission on Friday morning at the Missoula County Elections Office.

Some major issues will be decided in the mail-in election for which ballots were mailed out earlier this month.

Monday October 5th is the close of voter registration for the November 3rd municipal general election and there are a lot of hot issues on the ballot this year.