While voters remain distracted by this year’s contentious presidential election, three bad ballot initiatives have tip-toed their way onto the Montana ballot thanks to our Supreme Court allowing signatures of “inactive voters” to count on petitions.
Initiatives, CI-126 and CI-127 would result in the largest cities in Montana controlling who gets elected due to their larger populations. For reasons unknown, urban populations often lean left, note Bozeman and Missoula. This will likely disenfranchise voters in small towns, particularly in Eastern Montana.
Voters will be less informed as primary elections will allow candidates to hide who they really are by not having to declare a political party preference. This is an ongoing problem with the Montana Supreme court races. You cannot easily tell whether judicial candidates are liberal or conservative. Consider voting for Dan Wilson and Cory Swanson to add ideological balance to the Montana Supreme Court.
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In addition, Montana voters could end up with only Republicans or Democrats on the ballot in the November general elections, limiting our choices.
CI-128 is a constitutional initiative that embeds abortion as a woman’s right. Despite its fancy wording, this anti-life amendment believes only the mother’s life has value. Unborn babies and fathers have no rights. Fathers have no responsibilities. This is morally wrong.
Please vote no on these three bad constitutional initiatives to keep Montana elections fair, keep more babies alive and acknowledge that men have rights and responsibilities concerning an unexpected pregnancy as well.