To help clarify the processes and procedures that are in place to allow people to register and to vote in the 2020 General Election, which will be held by mail ballot in Gallatin County, Bob Wall spoke with Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder Eric Semerad and Elections Administrator Casey Hayes. They discussed the voter registration process, the way that mailed ballots are processed and counted (whether they are absentee voters’ ballots or ballots mailed to active voters in Gallatin County), the safeguards around preserving the integrity of the election, and additional measures that the County Elections Department is putting in place to make things easier for voters during the pandemic.

Bob also spoke with Gallatin County Commissioner Don Seifert about the Commission’s decision to make the 2020 General Election a mail-ballot election and about the election in general.

In a follow-on interview, Bob talked to former Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder Charlotte Mills, who presided over the transition of most of the elections in the county to mail-only elections. She offered her perspective on the processes the state of Montana has created governing election administration.

Bob Wall interviewed Jeff Milchen, one of the co-founders of the non-profit group Reclaim Democracy! and one of the co-hosts of KGVM’s View from Here, about voting rights and some of the voting issues that have been in the news recently.