Investigator finds Montana SOS Jacobsen discriminated against former county election official
Associated PressMontana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen emailed Cascade County commissioners in February as they considered candidates for the elections administrator position. An investigator from the Montana Department of Labor and Industry’s Human Rights Bureau recently concluded, according to a report obtained by Montana Free Press, that reasonable cause existed to support Fontana Moore’s allegation of political discrimination. That February, Cascade County commissioners interviewed four candidates, including Moore and her longtime election manager Lynn DeRoche, for the elections administrator job after relieving Clerk and Recorder Sandra Merchant of those duties. “Please do not hire Ms. Moore or a member of her administration as Cascade County’s Election Administrator,” Jacobsen, a Republican, wrote. In determining discrimination based on political belief, the Human Rights Bureau investigator noted that James and Jacobsen believed the hiring of Fontana Moore would undermine the 2022 clerk and recorder election.
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