For the first time since 1988, there are no candidates on the ballot in Montana for either House of Congress, other than the Republican and Democratic nominees.
There are no Greens because the party was removed from the ballot by a state court, five months after it had qualified and had its own primary, at which it nominated a candidate for U.S. Senate.
There is no Libertarian on the ballot for U.S. Senate because two of the party’s nominees, in succession, withdrew. Originally Eric Fulton was running, but he withdrew. Then the party persuaded Susan Geise, a former state chair of the Republican Party, to take his place. But she withdrew two months later, and then it was too late to find yet another nominee. She is a County Commissioner in Lewis & Clark County, one of Montana’s most populous counties, and she said the health crisis made her local government duties too pressing for her to run a Senate campaign.
Fulton — PURGED by LP MT ???
Condorcet = RCV / IRV done right.
If the voter controlled the ballot with an open all write-in ballot, then such manipulations could not occur. Voters would chose candidates free of duopoly censorship.
How baaaade is New Age handwriting and spelling — esp for any oddball names ???
Compare 1868 handwriting with 2020 junk.
Again — see the 2010 AK USA Senate super write-in mess.
Cue the music… If they used Top Two then Nirvana and Shangri-La etc, etc a la Jim Riley!
Richard – the news articles say it was Geise who replaced Fulton, not the other way around. Then Geise withdrew long after the deadline.
@CO,
https://youtu.be/EWP___jbc0o
If there were no party nominations, there would be no need for party qualification.
Eeyn, thank you. I re-wrote the post. You are correct.