Early Voters to Find Full Slate of Ballot Initiatives

HELENA — Montana voters will soon receive absentee ballots that include four citizen initiatives, the most in any election since 2010, alongside the top-of-the-ticket races for president, governor and U.S. House.

Early voting kicked off for state residents Friday as Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch mailed out 297,000 absentee ballots. Military and overseas voters previously received their ballots.

The ballot measures ask voters to decide whether to ban trapping on public lands, relax the state’s medical marijuana law, fund…