Starting with this upcoming election, voters will need to write their birth year on absentee ballots in a box under the signature line. Per a new state requirement, ballots will be rejected if this requirement isn’t met.

“Many of the voters that we have talked to, that the clerks have talked to, have been surprised that it's on there,” Yellowstone County Elections administrator Dayna Causby told the Gazette. “And so making sure that voters know that that is a requirement so that their ballot can be counted is very important.”

Ballots will start arriving in Yellowstone County residents' mailboxes Oct. 15. Election Day is Nov. 4.

The birth year requirement was enacted this October after Republican legislators passed House Bill 719 as part of a stated push for election integrity.

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