2020 Montana Election
Last Day to Register to Vote: Postmarked October 26 by mail; November 3 in person (no online registration)
Early In-Person Voting: Begins October 5; ends November 2
Last Day to Request Absentee Ballot: November 2
Excuse to Vote By Mail? None needed
Voter ID Required? Yes
STEVE BULLOCK (D), Challenger
A two-term governor of Montana, Bullock has held firm against politicians who’ve sought to block access to abortion. He championed Medicaid expansion, helping to extend health coverage to more than 80,000 Montanans.
As a Governor and as an American who believes everyone has the right to make their own health care decisions, I #standwithPP.
Steve Bullock, Aug. 9, 2019
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When the Trump administration sought to force Planned Parenthood from the federal Title X program, the nation's only dedicated affordable birth control program, Bullock spoke out. “We [reject] this administration’s efforts to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship, gut women’s access to family planning services, and force medical professionals to knowingly withhold information from their patients,” Bullock wrote to Trump’s secretary of health and human services.
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Bullock has vetoed numerous bills that politicize or limit access to safe, legal abortion. “Montana’s elected officials have no business substituting their personal beliefs for the sound medical judgment of our health care professionals or the deeply personal medical decisions of their constituents,” Bullock wrote, explaining his veto of a 20-week abortion ban.
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Bullock signed into law Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during his first term as governor, in 2015 — and the proportion of Montanans who lack health coverage fell by half.
STEVE DAINES (R), Incumbent
Daines has long vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act — and he’s made it a career-long priority to outlaw abortion and deny Montanans access to birth control and other reproductive health care by "defunding" Planned Parenthood health centers.
I want to see us defund Planned Parenthood. That’s an important priority for me personally.
Steve Daines, June 7, 2018
Source: YouTube
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Daines has repeatedly voted to “defund” Planned Parenthood, jeopardizing essential services like birth control and STI testing for millions of people.
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With access to safe, legal abortion under threat as Trump reshapes the federal courts, Daines joined more than 200 other members of Congress in filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court that urged justices to “reconsider” Roe v. Wade.
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Daines voted multiple times to repeal the ACA — which would wipe out protections for more than 420,000 Montanans with pre-existing conditions, and gut health coverage for more than 80,000 Montanans who have insurance through the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. He even insisted that a Senate bill to repeal the ACA must also “defund” Planned Parenthood.
