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HELENA, Mont. — Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen is reminding Montana’s absentee voters that they can track their ballot and access important election resources by visiting the Secretary of State’s voter resources website, VoteMT.gov.
“Last week, county election officials sent more than 500,000 absentee ballots to voters across the state, and roughly 13,000 have already been voted and returned for the June 2nd Primary Election,” said Secretary Jacobsen. “Montana’s absentee voters can use VoteMT.gov to track the status of their absentee ballot from the time it is sent to when it is received and accepted by their local election office.”
Voters tracking their absentee ballot will see the following under the “ballot status” category:
- SENT: The county election office issued and sent an absentee ballot
- RECEIVED: The county election office received a voter’s returned absentee ballot
- ACCEPTED: The county election office received and verified a voter’s returned absentee ballot, and it will be ready for counting
- REJECTED: The county election office received a voter’s returned absentee ballot, which may contain a missing and/or incorrect signature/birth year. Voters can easily resolve a rejected ballot by visiting https://votemt.gov/resolve-my-ballot/.
Together with the entire Montana Election Team, consisting of election officials from all 56 Montana counties, Secretary Jacobsen is also reminding Montana absentee voters to vote only one party’s ballot during the Primary Election cycle, to seal their ballot in the secrecy envelope, and to sign, date, and include their birth year on the return signature envelope.
Secretary Jacobsen noted that Montana’s 2026 Primary Election Absentee Ballot Count report is available on the Secretary of State’s website at https://sosmt.gov/elections/absentee-ballot-count/. The report will be updated by county election officials as Montanans return their voted ballots.