HELENA — The sponsors of a proposed ballot initiative that aims to keep corporations from spending money in Montana elections are now going to the state Supreme Court, after the attorney general ruled the measure didn’t qualify to go before voters.

The measure is currently called by the temporary name Ballot Issue #4. It’s intended to find a way around the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited money in elections as long as they don’t coordinate directly with candidates.

The Transparent Election Initiative, the group behind Ballot Issue #4, claim that states have the authority to limit what powers they grant corporations, so Montana could redefine those granted powers to exclude political spending. The measure would attem

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