{"id":46277,"date":"2022-09-29T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=46277?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-09-29T05:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:03:28","slug":"secretary-of-state-office-spends-more-than-1-3-million-on-election-law-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/09\/29\/secretary-of-state-office-spends-more-than-1-3-million-on-election-law-litigation\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Of State Office Spends More  Than $1.3 Million On Election Law Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montana Secretary of State\u2019s office spent about $1.3 million on legal fees, far surpassing  its $100,000 budget, defending election laws being challenged in courts in the state.<br \/>\n\t  According to a report to the Revenue Interim Committee last week, the legislature budgeted  $100,000 to the office for election litigation. The additional money was taken from the office\u2019s enterprise fund, which<\/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\/46277"}],"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=46277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46277"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=46277"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=46277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}