Montana: Trial could boot initiative from ballot
A trial will begin Thursday in Polson on the “pay-day” lending industry’s attempt to remove a measure imposing new limits on the industry from the Nov. 2 ballot. The suit says Initiative 164 supporters used deceptive and illegal practices to get I-164 on the ballot. I-164 opponents sued the state in August, claiming that signature-gatherers made false statements about the measure’s content, in order to persuade people to sign petitions that qualified I-164 for the ballot.