The court said four laws were unconstitutional, including one that ended same-day voter registration in most cases.
Montana’s highest court on Wednesday struck down four laws that the state’s Republican-led legislature passed in 2021 to restrict voting.
“Today’s decision is a tremendous victory for democracy, Native voters, and young people across the state of Montana,” Sheila Hogan, executive director of the Montana Democratic Party, said in a statement. “While Republican politicians continue to attack voting rights and our protected freedoms, their voter suppression efforts failed and were struck down as unconstitutional.”The office of Montana’s secretary of state, Christi Jacobsen , criticized the Supreme Court decision Wednesday.
The Montana Democratic Party and other groups challenged the laws in court, with District Court Judge Michael Moses striking them down in separate rulings in 2022.
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