Commissioners in a Montana county consider removing election oversight from fellow Republican

By AMY BETH HANSON
Associated Press

A clerk and recorder who expressed doubt about the integrity of the election process during her 2022 campaign may lose her election oversight duties in a Montana county in a vote Tuesday. The Cascade County commissioner says he proposed the removal in response to complaints about how elections have been run by Sandra Merchant. She says experienced election staff left when she was elected without teaching her how to do the job. The commissioners and Merchant are all Republicans, and she says they should be supporting each other.