What's Next in Montana's 2024 Election Process?

The votes have been cast and the races called in Montana’s 2024 general election. But for county workers, the election process itself is still not over, and vote counts won’t be considered truly official for several more weeks, until after they complete a variety of tasks intended to finalize counts and verify the accuracy of the results.

That work is already well underway in many county election offices across the state, with trained election workers and staff preparing thousands of provisional ballots for verification and counting next week. Ballots are classified as provisional for a variet...