EAdIElection Administration Index

§ 13-37-108 imposes detailed conflict-of-interest restrictions on the Commissioner of Political Practices — no conflicting positions, no political activity, no contributions, recusal from conflict matters — but a public financial-disclosure requirement for election officials sits in the general ethics code (Title 2, ch. 2), outside this corpus.

Montana provides judicial review of election matters — Chapter 36 election contests are heard in district court and the Administrative Procedure Act governs challenges to the Secretary of State's rules — but the surfaced provision (a district-court injunction against improper nominations) does not itself codify a general judicial-review right with standing, timeline and venue for election-authority decisions.

Montana has no single election commission — elections are administered by the Secretary of State and elected county election administrators, with statutory absentee election boards and county recount boards established by Title 13. The framework is statutory; level 1.

“In a partisan election, each absentee election board or the authorized election officials who are appointed must consist of two members, one from each of the two political parties”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Montana's election administration is not a multi-branch-appointed commission — the Secretary of State and county election administrators are independently elected; there is no election commission whose composition is shared across branches.

§ 13-37-103 fixes the Commissioner of Political Practices's term at six years, § 13-37-102(3) permits removal only for incompetence, malfeasance or neglect of duty — in writing and subject to judicial review — and § 13-37-105 adds impeachment. A statutory fixed term with for-cause removal.

“the individual selected to serve as commissioner is appointed for a 6-year term”

§ 13-4-102 codifies political balance for election boards — each board of election judges must include judges from all parties that submitted lists, and no more than a simple majority may come from one party; § 13-13-225 requires absentee election boards to take one member from each of the two leading parties.

“No more than the number of election judges needed to obtain a simple majority may be appointed from the list of one political party in each county.”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced petition-form and joint-fundraising provisions; Montana does not codify the election authority's budget as a separate ring-fenced statutory line item — county election administration is county-funded and the Secretary of State is funded by general appropriation.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced the biennial election-administrator training provision; Montana does not set election-infrastructure budgets on a codified multi-year cycle.

§ 13-37-502 and § 13-37-505 bar foreign nationals — directly or through an intermediary — from funding candidate elections and statewide ballot issues, and § 13-35-238 bars the state and counties from accepting any private donation to fund election administration; comprehensive for election-related funding generally, though no clause names the election authority's foreign funding specifically.

“It is unlawful for a foreign national, directly or through an intermediary, to make a disbursement for an electioneering communication, a contribution, or an expenditure”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 13-4-203 requires mandatory pre-election training of all election judges on current procedures and voting-system operation, with a certificate of completion required to serve; § 13-1-203 requires biennial training of election administrators plus six hours of annual continuing education.

“Before each election, all election judges must be instructed by the election administrator on current procedures”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

Montana codifies voting-system certification — § 13-17-101 and § 13-17-103 set approval and required specifications, § 13-17-212 requires the election administrator to publicly test and certify each system within 30 days before an election, and § 13-17-211 directs the Secretary of State to adopt uniform procedural rules.

“the election administrator shall publicly test and certify that the system is performing properly”

§ 13-17-212 codifies recertification triggers — at least 10% of each voting-system type is randomly retested and recertified every calendar year, and § 13-17-507 bars a machine that fails a post-election audit from reuse until re-examined and re-approved.

“at least 10% of each type of voting system in the state has been randomly tested and certified at least once every calendar year”

§ 13-17-507 codifies a defect-triggered suspension — a vote-counting machine implicated in an audit discrepancy may not be used in another election until examined by a computer software expert and re-approved by the Secretary of State; a formal decertification (approval-withdrawal) procedure with enumerated grounds is not separately codified.

“may not be used in another election until it has been examined and tested by a computer software expert”