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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/abortion_tax_initiatives_weighed/2081/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: The recent history of Montana’s ballot initiative process is rocky and ridden with legal battles. Every single 2006 initiative was the subject of a lawsuit. Three of the seven measures on the 2006 ballot were ruled invalid by the state Supreme Court. The court’s decision came down so close to Election Day that the newly invalid measures were already printed on the ballots. Two years and one Legislature later, Montana is taking another crack at the process of citizen lawmaking, with two controversial initiatives emerging from the northwest part of the state. But as both initiatives have been cleared to begin collecting signatures, groups opposed to the measures are joining together to stop them. In the meantime, backers of these initiatives have until June 20 to collect the 44,615 signatures necessary to get on the ballot.