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  • Montana Plan Set to Qualify for November Ballot After All-Volunteer Effort Collects Nearly 50,000 Signatures

    JEFF MANGAN, Transparent Election Initiative|Jun 17, 2026

    The Transparent Election Initiative announced Tuesday that The Montana Plan, Initiative 194, is set to qualify for the November ballot after an all-volunteer campaign collected nearly 50,000 signatures from voters in all 56 Montana counties in just 13 weeks — far surpassing Montana’s 30,121-signature statewide qualification threshold. To qualify for the ballot, I-194 must receive 30,121 verified signatures statewide and meet Montana’s geographic distribution requirement by collecting signatures equal to at least 5% of the vote cast for gover...

  • Transparent Election Initiative Launches Signature Collection for "The Montana Plan"

    JEFF MANGAN, Transparent Election Initiative|Mar 18, 2026

    The Transparent Election Initiative (TEI) announced today that it has received official petition sheets from the Montana Secretary of State for Initiative I-194, the statutory version of “The Montana Plan,” allowing the campaign to begin collecting signatures to place the initiative on the November 3 ballot. The statutory initiative — now designated Initiative I-194 — was found legally sufficient by the Attorney General and transmitted to the Secretary of State’s office for petition preparation and circulation. If passed in November, “The Mont...

  • The Transparent Election Initiative: New Amendment Uses Corporate Law to Ban Political Spending

    JEFF MANGAN, Transparent Election Initiative|Aug 6, 2025

    The Transparent Election Initiative, a Montana organization, released the public draft of a historic constitutional amendment that takes direct aim at Citizens United—and the corporate and dark money it unleashed into Montana’s politics. The amendment will be officially filed with the Montana Secretary of State’s office on Friday, August 1. The 1,000-word amendment takes an innovative new approach by using Montana’s corporate chartering authority to no longer grant its corporations and similar entities the power to use money to influence candid...