On the evening of Monday, September 19, Mike Fellows was killed in a car crash. He had been returning from a candidate’s forum. He is the Montana Libertarian Party’s nominee for U.S. House. He was also the most active leader of that party. Whenever there was a legislative hearing on a bill affecting ballot access, he was there. He was also the chief candidate-recruiter for the party, and a very good source for election law news from Montana for me.

The Montana election law does allow the Libertarian Party to replace him on the ballot, but it must do that within five days. The overseas absentee ballots have not been mailed yet and can be reprinted. Thanks to Michael Fucci for this sad news. UPDATE: see this story. Also, this story.