Montana county to vote on removing election oversight duties from elected official

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : In the resolution, Briggs wrote that the county recently spent $200,000 on ballot tabulators and "has received persistent criticism and concerns from certain members of the public who are politically aligned to the currently elected Clerk and Recorder that the county's ... tabulators are Wi-Fi connected, capable of being manipulated by foreign governments or other nefarious actors, and that the only way to remove such fears is for Cascade County to open the tabulators for public inspection.

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