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Republican lawmakers and Gov. Greg Gianforte agree that a special session is needed to redraw districts for the state’s utility oversight board. However, a GOP faction was also pushing to create a special committee to investigate election integrity in the same trip to the Capitol. That effort appears to have failed.

Two former politicians and a college student are suing the state to contest district boundaries for Montana’s utility oversight board.

The dispute between Republican legislative leadership and the state Supreme Court will likely continue after the legislative session ends. This as Montana…