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Advanced Micro Targeting argued it did not have to disclose who financed its campaign — and the state’s campaign regulator agreed.

Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Jeff Mangan ruled in July that Advanced Micro Targeting was not required to report its spending because it was not advocating on behalf of a candidate. Instead, Mangan ordered the Montana Green Party to report the spending by Aug. 24.

As of Friday, three weeks after the deadline, the Green Party has not responded to the order. Party co-ordinator Danielle Breck said Wednesday that the party does not know who paid the company or how much money was spent.

The commissioner, with all of his resources, was unable to determine who paid for the signature gathering, Breck said. “I don’t know how he expects the Montana Green Party … to figure it out.”

The controversy comes just three years after Montana reformed its campaign finance laws. Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock and legislative leaders have touted the new law’s transparency and disclosure requirements as among the toughest in the nation after the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United ruling that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections.

Montana also updated campaign finance laws after paid signature gatherers were used in support of ballot measures in 2006. State law now requires the disclosure of expenses related to gathering petition signatures for an initiative, referendum or a constitutional convention. But it does not address payments made for gathering signatures to qualify minority parties for the ballot, a grey area in the law that’s only now being exposed.