Senate rejects mail ballots, absentee ballots available today

The Hill County Clerk and Recorder’s Office announced that today, one day after the Montana Senate rejected allowing mail ballots in the upcoming U.S. House of Representatives special election, absentee ballots are available in the courthouse.

The Republican-led Senate rejected Monday Gov. Steve Bullock’s amendment adding mail ballots for the special election to a separate election bill.

The Senate had narrowly passed a bill allowing mail ballots in the election, but that bill died in the House. Democrats were unable to blast it out of a Republican-controlled committee.

After Bullock amended a...