Senate Bill 180, the revised registry and badging scheme for paid ballot question petition circulators, passed House Local Government on Tuesday with one significant amendment.…
Tag: 2018 HB 1196
The SD Voice petition drives need you! We have six weeks to collect 25,000 signatures on the HB 1094 Referendum petition to stop the oppressive…
Dennis Daugaard appointed 18 legislators to vacancies in eight years. He didn’t get to make his first appointment until November of his first year in…
The Board of Elections will meet on June 18 in Pierre to formalize some of the restrictions the 2018 Legislature has foisted on petitioners and…
South Dakota, the state that first enacted initiative and referendum, may be about to kill it. People keep asking me whether we should refer any…
I have been asked by more than one friend if we should refer House Bills 1177 and 1196 to a public vote. My tentative answer…
Yesterday wasn’t all good for ballot measures in the Legislature. The Senate barely passed House Bill 1177, Rep. Drew Dennert’s part in the Republican push…
One of Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s meaner ideas passed the House this afternoon, though not without some Republicans telling the Speaker he’s going too far…