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Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch Discusses Records Management, E-Voting

- Mar 16, 2010

In 2008, Linda McCulloch became the first woman elected secretary of state in Montana. McCulloch ran on a platform of increasing voter participation and partnering with state businesses to help them grow. Prior to taking office, she served eight years as the state superintendent of public instruction and in the Montana House of Representatives. She is overseeing a bar-coding project for the 40,000 boxes of documentation the state stores.

What are your policies for records management in Montana?
Records management is one of those things most people don't think of very often and don't think is very exciting. But I'm also a school librarian, and librarians were the first records managers. We use the national standard, which always surprises folks because people think it must be flash drives, discs or something digital - when in fact, it's microfiche. We need to keep them on a medium that will be workable 100 years from now, and that's microfiche.

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