Dear Editor: Denied - Your Right to Write In

Dear Editor,

You may think you have the right to vote. The right to exercise your constitutional franchise to select the candidate of your choice. You would be wrong. In Montana, that right no longer exists.

The politicians have seen to that. They have filtered your choices for you, and left your right to choose on the floor of the legislature like a rotting corpse. All to benefit themselves.

For many voters, the write-in lines are hardly noticed. They may not like any of the candidates printed on the ballot, but they either (a) don't have anyone else in mind to write in, or (b) figure it's be...