ull-time election office to open on Blackfeet reservation

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) – A Montana county will offer full-time election services at a satellite office on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation through the November general election.

The Great Falls Tribune reports that Indian voting rights activists have praised Glacier County officials’ plan to open the satellite office in Browning. It will offer voter registration, late registration, early voting and ballot drop-off through November 8.

Election offices are required on reservations after a 2012 lawsuit, but some counties were only providing services three days a week.

South Dakota-based nonprofit Four Directions, which supports Indian voting rights, worked with the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council on the issue. Four Directions consultant Bret Healy says the move will bring a fully-functional in-person election office to the most heavily populated reservation in Montana.

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Information from: Great Falls Tribune, http://www.greatfallstribune.com