{"id":123762,"date":"2026-04-16T05:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/04\/16\/election-officials-remind-voters-of-birth-year-requirement\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2028-10-02T07:43:49","slug":"election-officials-remind-voters-of-birth-year-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/04\/16\/election-officials-remind-voters-of-birth-year-requirement\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Election Officials Remind Voters Of Birth Year Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballots for Montana school and special district elections coming up on May 5 are being  mailed to voters this week and election officials are reminding  Montanans of the new law that requires writing a birth year and signature on a mail ballot envelope before mailing it or returning it.<br \/>\n\t  The Montana Association of Clerk and Recorders and Election Administrators sent a press release on Monday, April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124070,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123762\/revisions\/124070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123762"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=123762"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=123762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}