Brian Schweitzer boasts how he helped Jon Tester "win" 2006 Montana Senate race

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer at Annual Trial Lawyers’ Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 14, 2008

Schweitzer boasted (to the cheers of the trial lawyers) of his misuse of official powers to interfere with the voting and vote-counting process to tip the 2006 Montana election for a U.S. Senate seat to his favored candidate, Jon Tester.

Schweitzer tells how he use threats of false arrest to force Republican poll watchers to abandon their posts, and about his directive to the clerk of Butte - Silver Bow County to delay the release of vote counts for many hours so as to give Tester a tactical advantage in resisting a recount

full audio file here:
https://archive.org/details/MontanaGov.BrianSchweitzerSpeechToTrialLawyersConvention7142008