There's been a strange twist in two Montana Supreme Court races, the Independent Record reports: U.S. Sen. Jon Tester has accused Stanford University and Darmouth College of "voter manipulation" for their role in a mailer sent regarding the Supreme Court races. The 2014 "Montana General Election Voter Information Guide" rated that four candidates as more liberal and more conservative and was sent by a Stanford research project funded with $250,000 from the Hewlett Foundation and $100,000 from the university, the Independent Record further reports. The project's website says its studying how candidate positioning affects voter turnout in judicial elections when races are nonpartisan. Tester said he has concerns about the universities testing hypotheses on the voting public.
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