Whoo-hoo! We are perhaps just days away from another initiative petition hitting the streets. South Dakota Open Primaries announced yesterday that it has submitted the…
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One of the reasons the U.S. District Court agreed with me that South Dakota had violated the Constitution when it tried to make ballot question petition circulators…
Statewide referendum petition drives may begin the moment the Legislature adjourns on Veto Day. Three days after that final gavel, no one appears to have…
Senate Bill 139, which Governor Kristi Noem signed Tuesday, may disenfranchise tens of thousands of RV voters in South Dakota. But SB 139, which will…
When the Eighth Circuit overturned South Dakota’s unconstitutional twelve-month deadline for initiative petitions in February, the Legislature acted quickly to fill that legal gap by…
Governor Kristi Noem can make sure Rick Weiland has until May 2024 to collect signatures to place the food-tax repeal on the 2024 ballot by…
Another important bill headed for conference committee is Senate Bill 113, in which the Legislature attempts to replace the unconstitutional 12-month deadline for initiative petitions…
In Colorado the circulation period was six months, and the filing deadline was three months before the election. South Dakota’s circulation period is one year. In…
Earlier this month, the Eighth Circuit erased South Dakota’s initiative petition deadlines and told South Dakota it can’t require citizens to submit signed initiative petitions…
Senate State Affairs saved the state from another lawsuit yesterday. On an 8–1 vote, the committee killed House Bill 1200, Rep. Elizabeth May’s (R-27/Kyle) unconstitutional…