2 January 2017

Expect changes in websites of MT SecST, Auditor, and OPI

Republicans Corey Stapleton, Matt Rosendale, and Elsie Arntzen, winners of last fall’s elections for Montana Secretary of State, Auditor, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, take their oaths of office this morning. One of their first tasks will be updating the websites of their offices with the names of the people now in charge. It’s part routine change, part political cleansing.

Later, and in some cases not that much later, they’ll redesign these websites to emphasize their priorities, and to eliminate all vestiges of the previous administration. I hope they’ll do that carefully, breaking few links, but a bull in a china shop approach is possible.

In the meantime, Montanans should download as much data as possible, for some online data may become hard to find, and some may disappear.