Drinking Liberally reminds me to check the new monthly voter registration count, and I discover that election-denying Secretary of State Monae Johnson is now denying her Republican Party its 300K voter achievement. The SDGOP surpassed 300,000 registered voters for the first time back in March. But in her ongoing purge of the voter rolls, Secretary Johnson has knocked the SDGOP back down to a mere 299,853 registrants.
(Secretary Johnson has also forgotten to reformat the voter registration monthly tally webpage to make the table fit both the ridiculously separated counts of independents and “no party affiliation” voters—come on, Monae: they’re the same thing—and the new column for the official “No Labels” party label, which the Secretary inexplicably places in the first column of parties arranged in neither alphabetical or numerical order. No matter how far I widen the window—and I have a 27-inch screen—the “Inactive” column keeps spilling out of the white background.)
Thanks to Johnson’s ongoing purge, Republicans have 1,804 fewer registrants than they did at the beginning of November. Democrats are down 1,597, independents are down 1,498, and Libertarians are down 34. Johnson likely struck more voters than that—while the statewide voter total is down 4,945 from November, the total added to the purgatory of “Inactive” status is up 5,807. New voters likely signed up for each party, mitigating the net losses to each active category.
While Pubs have slipped below 300K, they maintain a 2 to 1 advantage over Democrats, as they have since July. They also have increased their raw majority among registered voters from the historic 50.06% on November 1 to 50.17% yesterday.
Nobody is independent.
2 things I know for sure, I am an independent voter and Larry Kurtz is a lying whiner.
Nobody is independent, especially voters.
Ms. Monae, who is very pretty, hires staff who are not very ept. They are, in fact, inept.
The voter count, who cares?
Let’s talk about how we can prevent Trump from winning South Dakota in 24, whether he is in jail or not.
1. Use the 14th Amendment and legally challenge T s right to be on the ballot, as an insurrection it’s.
This would be hard to win, but possible. I think the conservative State Supreme Court would affirm T rump. Worth a try though.
2. In June, we vote in the Primary for Nikki Haley as Republicans.
This might be our best choice. Despite her Will Smith appetite for calling another candidate scum and urging him to keep her daughters name out of his mouth, there was no slapping!
Haley has the best chance for beating Trump in the polls. Who will be in the Dems primary? Biden will win that anyway.
3. Assuming South Dakota Rippies will vote for Dictator Trump, and Haley does not win, and Trump runs, then what?
Either put our money into Get out the vote operations in essential states like Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico and Georgia and Arizona, or move to those states and vote Biden there!
Trump will do all he can to be a fascist in 2025 if South Dakotans and 267 other electors are stupid enough.
The press seems to be against Biden and his age. Is this real news or a fake story? The press also says Oswald did it too.
4. Worst case scenario. Trump finishes Mein Kampf Look at Me memoir and occupies the White House in 2025.
Stay or get a 2nd passport to another country? Permanent residence in another country would cost I don’t know $50 000?
Who will he come for first?
Darker skinned Americans first, Democrats are Communists. Everyone except his 38% would be suspect and in peril, unless our Court System works.
5. RFK Jr factor.
If he runs, this would throw the election to the Biden or the Democrat. Heavy turnout needed!
The last time the R party won the popular vote was 2004.
They lost 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, 20020.
Losing 7 out of the last elections by popular vote? Yes, they are a minority party in the nation.
We can do what we can do, hoping the traditional republicans will over come Their Maga fascists and field a candidate who believes in Under God the people rule (not the elected clique). Hope is eternal.
Section 3 of the 14 Amendment DOES NOT effect the President, nor the candidates for President. IT “restricts” Americans from becoming U.S Senator, U.S Representative, an Elector for President, or from Holding Offices within the Federal Government itself. IT is only restricting Americans taking an OATH under Article 6 of the United States Constitution. The PRESIDENT takes an oath under Article 2. The “CONGRESS and All Federal Officers and Agents take an oath to “SUPPORT” the constitution, and the PRESIDENT takes an oath to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution in its “original state”. The President works on behalf of the States, while “Congress, the Officers, and Agents” work within the Federal Government mandated to “SUPPORT” the Constitutional Restrictions of the Government.
The President is elected by the States to defend them against the Federal Government, and our Enemies, both Foreign and Domestic.
The only way to remove a President, is by means of Impeachment, and that cannot happen without a Public Hearing in Congress. And the you surely do NOT want the Federal Govt, nor State Govts interferring in a Federal Election, which is exactly what some are doing today.
What does Section 3 of the 14th Amendment mean?
Ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly disqualifies any person from public office who, having previously taken an oath as a federal or state office holder, engaged in insurrection or rebellion.Feb 26, 2021
drumpf and Hypocrite Zit lose again.
Appears that TRUMP and I are winning, and courts are defending TRUMP in all these allegations citing the amendment. I win again.
The only means of these Blue States to restrict would be to disaqualify the ELECTORS for President, thus removing them from the electoral processs of choosing the President. Learn the facts, or shutup.
So far 2 courts have said they won’t prevent the criminal from appearing on primary ballots. That is all they are saying. Learn the facts and shut up!
3rd and 14th means you have to pass
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t affect a primary election since they are party affairs but Trump won’t be on any general election ballot in any state.
Section 3 of the 14 Amendment DOES NOT affect the President, nor the candidates for President. IT “restricts” Americans from becoming U.S Senator, U.S Representative, an Elector for President, or from Holding Offices within the Federal Government itself. IT is only restricting Americans taking an OATH under Article 6 of the United States Constitution. The PRESIDENT takes an oath under Article 2. The “CONGRESS and All Federal Officers and Agents take an oath to “SUPPORT” the constitution, and the PRESIDENT takes an oath to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution in its “original state”. The President works on behalf of the States, while “Congress, the Officers, and Agents” work within the Federal Government mandated to “SUPPORT” the Constitutional Restrictions of the Government.
The President is elected by the States to defend them against the Federal Government, and our Enemies, both Foreign and Domestic.
The only way to remove a President, is by means of Impeachment, and that cannot happen without a Public Hearing in Congress. And you surely do NOT want the Federal Govt, nor State Govts interfering in a Federal Election, which is exactly what some are doing today.
WE must sue every Attorney General, Secretary of State, and every Judge who is attempting to Interfere in our Elections Process.
Trump will be protected, not only by the HOUSE OF GOD, but by our own SUPREME COURT who wears Black Robes, and Took an OATH to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. NO COURT will remove Trump from any ballot. When are you Democrats gonna wake up?
If I offend you, who cares, its a free country, and we have free speech. The Democrat Schemes are Falling Apart Faster than you can walk down your front two steps.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t affect a primary election since they are party affairs but Trump won’t be on any general election ballot in any state. Trump should lose his passport and be under house arrest and every other Earth hating Republican who help to engineer the insurrection and attempted overthrow of the federal election should be disqualified as well.
South Dakota voters should doubt everything Mrs. Johnson says and suspect everything she does.
After Trump is convicted on even some of his 91 felony counts the US Senate will disqualify him.
Again. If Trump is the Earth hater nominee Liz Cheney will take enough votes to re-elect Joe and Kamala and the uniparty won’t abide that.
The GOP Earth haters know Trump can’t beat Joe especially with Cheney in the race but Nikki Haley poses a real threat to the Biden/Harris ticket without Cheney in it.
Zit’s real concern is if drumpf is legally kept off the ballot, he will lose his job as drumpf’s chief fluffer in South Duhkota.
Zitterich is so out there his comments read like parodies.
Mr. Zitterich is a parrot, indeed.
Does Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment apply to Trump?
Debatable and far from settled for all that, individual DFP commentator positions at variance notwthstanding. Merely taking up a stand does not fully adjudicate any matter.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66690276
What happened on January 6th cannot be erased from our memory, regardless of how a court might rule…and in this case it will be several courts concluding with our discredited Supreme Court. He’s still Donald Trump. A second term for that guy would be a nightmare for Democrats and Republicans alike.
As I understand it, in odd-numbered years, county auditors send postcards to people who have not voted for a certain number of elections to verify if they are still around.
This spring I got a copy of my county’s voter registration list. Looking through the list, I recognized names of local people that were deceased. One passed away in 2013 and others had been gone several years, yet they were still on the voter list. I looked up two of these tonight on the SD SOS VIP and their names had been removed.
Since death certificates are filed within the state, I don’t understand why there is not coordination between these offices to promptly remove a deceased person from the voter list.
No doubt it is known how many names were removed from the voter list because of death and the dates of their death. I’d love to see that spreadsheet. Good luck getting that information from our transparent officials n SD.
In the kinder and gentler state of MN (thank you DFL leaders) we are doing the opposite and restored voting rights to 50,000 formerly incarcerated residents. We believe everyone deserves a second chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxAOifYEug
Red states love doing everything in their power to suppress and disenfranchise nonwhite voters.
Indeed, Dave: I’d love to be able to ask for and analyze such voter data. Transparency would build much more confidence in the integrity of our election system than any brochure crafted to publicize Monae’s name (repeated five times on just four small pages) as much as “election integrity”.
For instance, it would be great to see a list of voters stricken from the rolls in the fall purge and the reasons for their striking. Verified death? Failure to respond to that nice postcard? Notice of registration in another state?
Mikey – last I checked the presidency is an office within the government (within the constitution – a constitutional office holder). Please learn the English language.
Cory – SD has opted out of participation in the system of states that inform one another of changes of residency of registered voters amongst them. SD does not want to know such things – it seems. So, it all falls back on the lack of activity status – or death.
I wonder if, let’s say I give my buddy from Piedmont, SD a ride to his local Feeding SD food truck in Meade County and I tell the nice person with the clipboard my name, instead of using my buddy’s name to go through the line. I’m cautious something like that could remove me from my Pennington county precinct voting registry. I wonder if appearing on a list like that would get a person purged. So far, it hasn’t. I will keep checking because who knows? Someone might sign me up for a prize drawing in St. Onge and next thing I know, I can’t vote. I wouldn’t put it passed our SOS.