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Jacobsen leads in Montana Secretary of State re-election bid • Daily Montanan [1]
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Date: 2024-11-05
Montana’s Republican Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen has a wide lead in her effort to win re-election as of 10 p.m. Tuesday. With 10% of votes counted, she was carrying 66% of the vote, compared to 31% for Democrat Jesse James Mullen and 2% for Libertarian John Lamb.
Jacobsen served as deputy Secretary of State before winning election to office in 2020, when she defeated Democrat Bryce Bennet by about 19 percentage points. Most of Montana’s largest counties still had people waiting to vote as of 10 p.m. and have not reported any results so far.
Jacobsen has touted her efforts to boost business registrations in Montana, waiving of business fees, and election security efforts as successes of her first term.
Her Democratic opponent Mullen, the owner of a newspaper chain from Deer Lodge, had criticized Jacobsen, however, for a lack of transparency and some election gaffes during her time in office.
She also faced criticism from proponents of three constitutional amendments Montanans voted on this year. They accused Jacobsen of trying to keep them off the ballot, delaying their certification to gather signatures, and fighting their certification for the ballot by contending that inactive voters were not qualified voters and could not sign petitions.
Her office responded to those allegations by saying it had to navigate complexities surrounding the initiative and that it had abided by court orders in which judges sided with the proponents of the initiative.
Lamb, a father of 12 from Norris, previously ran for Congress and the state Legislature and said he wanted to do away with all gun laws.
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