Category Archives: Elections

School board candidates take questions; ballots mailed April 18

The Electric hosted a forum with the candidates for school board on April 14. If you missed it, you can watch the video below. Michael Nagel wasn’t able to attend and submitted his responded to the same questions in an email. Those responses are posted below the video. There are four seats are up for election: Three seats that represent

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The Electric hosting school board candidate forum April 14

The Electric is hosting a candidate forum on April 14 with the candidates for the Great Falls Public Schools board of trustees. The forum will be 6-8 p.m. in Room B101 at Great Falls College-MSU. More candidates file for May school board election The forum will also be live streamed on The Electric’s Facebook page. There are four seats are

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County election filing closed, primary set for June 7

Filing for the county elections closed March 14. The primary election is June 7. On the county ballot this year are the county commission seats for District 1, a six-year term, which is currently held by Joe Briggs; and the unexpired term for the District 3 seat, currently held by Don Ryan for the remaining two years. Few candidates have

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More candidates file for May school board election

Filing for school board seats opened in December and closes March 24 for the May 3 ballot. Filing for county elections opens Jan. 13 There are four seats are up for election: Three seats that represent both elementary and secondary districts on the board for three years through  May 2025. Anyone interested in these positions must live within the Great

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Few have filed for county offices; commission candidate deemed ineligible

Update 5 p.m. March 1.  The filing period for federal, state and county primary elections opened Jan. 13. Filing is open through March 14 for the June 7 primary for county seats. On the county ballot this year are the county commission seats for District 1, a six-year term, which is currently held by Joe Briggs; and the unexpired term

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State delays implementation of new election management system

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen said this week that her office, in conjunction with county election administrators, decided not to implement the new election management system, ElectMT, at this time. The decision came after a scheduled meeting between the SoS’s elections division, a representative of the county election administrators and the software vendor, according a release. “The decision to

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Four school board seats on May ballot, filing opens Dec. 9.

The next Great Falls school board election will be May 3, 2022. Filing opens for four seats on Dec. 9 and candidates must file by March 24 to appear on the ballot. Reiff appointed to school board; GFPS piloting arts programs; District concerned about teacher shortage The following four seats are up for election: Three seats that represent both elementary

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Hinebauch appointed to fill Houck’s city commission seat

City Commissioners unanimously voted during their Nov. 16 meeting to appoint Eric Hinebauch to the vacancy created by Tracy Houck’s resignation. He’ll take the seat in December and have to run for the seat in the regular 2023 city election. Mayor Bob Kelly said the last time there was a vacancy was when he was appointed in 2012. In that

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Commission set to consider Hinebauch for Houck vacancy

The City Commission has scheduled a vote for their Nov. 16 meeting to appoint Eric Hinebauch to the commission to fill the vacancy created by Tracy Houck. Houck announced her resignation on Nov. 4 to be effective Nov. 5 and under the city charter, “when a vacancy occurs, the City Commission may, by majority vote of its remaining members, appoint

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