Montana primary election set for Tuesday

Montana will hold its primary elections Tuesday, as voters throughout the Treasure State weigh in on the Democratic and Republican races for president and legislative and local races.

In Hill County, polling stations will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Hill County Clerk and Recorder Susan Armstrong said that there are 9,015 registered voters in the county, of which 6,560 are deemed active. The remaining 2,455 are inactive.

Armstrong said that since absentee ballots were made available May 15, 3,451 were mailed out to Hill County voters, of which 2,363 had been completed and mailed back to t...