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The Montana Plan Transparent Election Initiative 194
The Transparent Election Initiative is committed to ending the influence of corporate and dark money in our politics through the groundbreaking The Montana Plan. We believe that elections should be decided by voters, not by the size of corporate checkbooks.
Our approach leverages each state's authority to define corporate powers, creating a pathway to campaign finance reform that doesn't rely on restricting speech but instead focuses on not granting political spending powers to corporations in the first place. Citizens United held that corporations with full political spending powers have First Amendment rights. But what if corporations simply don't have those powers in the first place? States have always had the authority to define what powers corporations possess. By redefining corporate charters to exclude political spending powers, we don't restrict speech—we simply don't grant the power to spend politically.
CI-132 Judges should be elected based on their record and qualifications, not their political party. Montanans have been electing judges in non-partisan elections since 1935.
This ballot measure protects our long-standing tradition of selecting judges based on the person, not the party. What does this initiative Do? This initiative defends Montana’s long tradition of nonpartisan courts. Montana has been electing judges via nonpartisan elections since 1935. This measure protects our long-standing tradition of selecting judges based on the person, not the political party.
Why Now? Politicians in Helena are attempting to make judicial elections partisan. It’s time to secure our courts from the threat of political control. This measure helps ensure that judges are accountable to the citizens of Montana, not politicians, party bosses, or political donors.
MT CI-133 Protecting MT's Citizen Initiative Process
After legal battle, group behind voter-led lawmaking defense starts gathering signatures.
The campaign to amend Montana’s constitution so it would be harder for lawmakers to interfere with citizen-led efforts to enact laws through ballot initiatives has begun gathering the signatures necessary to put the proposal in front of voters this November. CI-133, launched in October by a group called Montanans Decide, would add a section to the state constitution that guarantees “impartial, predictable, transparent and expeditious processes” for ballot measures and protects against the government getting involved on either side of a proposed referendum. The effort has faced an uphill battle to get to this point that, organizers say, illustrates the need for the kind of protection they are trying to codify.
