Richie Melby

Last month, Cascade County commissioners capped a tumultuous year of election discord when they hired a new nonpartisan election administrator. But according to new reporting from online publication The Electric, Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen emailed commissioners before they made their choice and advised them against hiring two of the four candidates for the job.

Montana’s top political watchdog has dismissed three complaints filed by Montana’s Secretary of State alleging campaign practice violations.

Montana’s top political watchdog made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for state officials to combat election misinformation and hostility.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed to challenge a legislative proposal to change the way Supreme Court justices would be elected in Montana.A…