Allison Franz

Look what your precious Oxford comma did this time, nerds.

@wabermes WHERE DID HE COME FROM

@UMGRIZZLIES @MissoulaAF

Strike up Cotton Eye Joe!

Taking my Cotton Eye Joe rants to a platform that deserves them 🦋 @missoulaaf.bsky.social

Initial election results for Missoula County will be available sometime after 8 p.m. at sosmt.gov Per state law, the Elections Office can't release initial results until after everyone still in line to vote at 8 p.m. has voted.

A drive thru ballot drop is also available at McCormick Park (600 Cregg Lane) and is open until 8 p.m.

By “bad time,” I mean you have to park and get out of your car to drop your ballot off, and parking is extremely limited. Save yourself the hassle and go to one of the drive-thru options!

Missoula Co., if you still need to return your ballot and you try to do that at the Elections Center, you’re gonna have a bad time. It’s packed with folks registering to vote. Go to McCormick Park (right down the street!) or the drop-off on Russell between Fairgrounds and YMCA

Absentee voters who need to drop off their ballots on Election Day can go to one of the following locations on Tuesday, Nov. 5 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.: · McCormick Park - 600 Cregg Lane · Russell Street - between YMCA and the Fairgrounds · Any polling place

Still have your absentee ballot? Here are your options to return it between now and Election Day.

A mill is a unit of taxation equal to one thousandth of a dollar per $1 of assessed property value. Duh. Luckily, you don't have to know what a mill is to understand your property tax bill, which are hitting mailboxes and are online now at tax.missoulacounty.us

@larsphillips @EllieHill Those are total ballots returned for those elections.

@EllieHill @MissoulaAF Missoula Co. is at 39.4k ballots returned... in comparison (with a week to go): 2022: 48.9k 2020: 72.5k (all absentee election) 2018: 49.6k 2016: 44.1k

@MissoulaAF Is this low, normal, high? And, do you have a paper bag I can breathe into? #MTPol #MTNews

@technomarxist Those look like the total ballot return numbers for those entire elections, not the return rate for one week out for each of them.

@EllieHill It was at about 40% a week before the election in 2022. I don’t have numbers offhand for one week out for earlier elections (and I’m not going to bug our busy election folks about it). 2020 was an outlier with it being all-mail, so probably not an apt comparison anyway.

50% of ballots in Missoula Co. have been returned! Still need to drop yours off? Take it to the secure 24/7 drop box at the Elections Center up until Nov. 5. If you wait until Election Day, then drop it off at the Fairgrounds or McCormick Park. missoulavotes.com

@ceejaybrown lol @skylar_rispens also made this discovery recently. See thread for lore behind it

@MissoulaAF - my office is near this sign….I’m endlessly curious about it! #SquirrelU

@Chiefstormsky @Shan73198 @MomsDemand @MonicaTranel My mom’s a badass!

@Shan73198 @MomsDemand @MonicaTranel Care to comment @MissoulaAF ? Ha!

@MaritsaGeorgiou Ugh. So sorry to hear this, Maritsa.

Yesterday was brutal. I LOVE going to work every single day because of the caring, hard working, genius and hilarious people I get to work with. We are all figuring out what’s next… but until then, we have an election to get through. I hope you’ll join us until the end.🩷

@JDeMarois Damn, I wish! Legend needs to reveal themselves on this hellsite asap

@MissoulaAF I assumed that was you guys.

Desperately need to know who donated to Dragon Hollow under the name Daenerys Targaryen

@AnneliseHedahl @jdnuge Would pay a not-insignificant sum for this service!

There is an epidemic of appliances making little sing-song noises instead of just beeping and it needs to stop