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HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s county election administrators have submitted independent and minor party candidate petitions to the Secretary of State’s Office in accordance with Montana law. The Secretary of State’s Office will now conduct its review for the necessary statutory requirements.
Six candidates filed with the Secretary of State’s Office as independent candidates during Montana’s candidate filing period. Montana law outlines the signature requirements that each candidate must receive to appear on November’s General Election ballot (13-10-502, MCA). Thursday, August 20th, is the deadline for the November General Election ballot to be certified.
Tuesday, May 26th, was the deadline for the independent candidates to submit signed petitions to the county election administrators. Election officials processed and verified signatures received by the deadline before submitting them to the Secretary of State’s Office.
Unofficial signature updates that counties had processed for the six filed candidates as of Monday evening are below:
- Seth Bodnar, U.S. Senate (13,327 required)
- 21,284 accepted; 8,680 rejected
- Kimberly Persico, 1st Congressional (6,742 required)
- 563 accepted; 156 rejected
- Michael Eisenhauer, 2nd Congressional (7,274 required)
- 8,044 accepted; 4,792 rejected
- Jason Wilson, House District 37 (187 Required)
- No signatures currently reported
- Shayne Morgan, House District 76 (198 required)
- 199 accepted; 39 rejected
- Kelley Durbin-Williams, House District 90 (215 Required)
- No signatures currently reported
The attached report is unofficial. It includes totals that the county election officials have processed and entered in the system. These totals do not represent what the Secretary of State’s Office has received, reviewed, tabulated, or certified. The certified totals may differ from what is reflected.