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Communication breakdown. Project Vote Smart on the move?

Richard Kimball, president of the Philipsburg-based voter education organization Project Vote Smart, says he’s negotiating a partnership with the University of Arizona to expand operations.

Richard Kimball, president of the nonprofit voter education outfit Project Vote Smart, told the Associated Press earlier this month that the Philipsburg-based organization was planning to expand its operations at the University of Arizona in Tucson rather than in Montana.

Kimball told the AP he’d approached the University of Montana “a few years ago” about a partnership that would have moved the project to the UM campus, but said UM officials expressed no interest and “got kind of nasty.”

But in an interview with the Independent Monday, Kimball backed off that statement. He now says he met with UM officials in the late 1990s and that they were “very positive” about the prospect of hosting the project, which at the time was part of the Center for National Independence in Politics at Oregon State University.

by John S. Adams

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