You don’t just get to do a wink and a nod and say, ‘I can use the water and don’t have to figure it out,’” Judge Wald said.

Locals in the small Montana town are indignant about how an unwanted development came to their backyard. Some are refusing to be pushed aside.

Both candidates for the state Legislature deny any shenanigans, but the county’s Democratic and Republican central committees say differently.

As many seasoned political organizers will tell you, the process of gathering signatures in support of ballot issues is no easy task. With rules and mathematical formulas for tallying signatures ...