ALEX SAKARIASSEN

Montana Free Press

Over the past couple weeks, county election officials around the state have fielded numerous form emails from Montanans requesting that their voter status be changed from inactive to active. Save for the names, addresses and contact info, the emails are virtually identical and all hail from the same domain: http://votedaines.com .

According to its disclaimer, the site is paid for by U.S. Sen. Steve Daines’ re-election campaign. And the campaign spent a good chunk of late August pushing the link via social media and text messages. 

The gist from the...