Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) has the first constitutional amendment in the 2024 Legislative hopper. Venhuizen is trying again to put before the voters a…
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Confident that she can’t get her censorious colleagues to enact any of her legislation, Senator Julie Frye-Mueller (R-30/Rapid City) has submitted the first potential ballot…
Ohio Republicans tried the same election-rigging trick as South Dakota Republicans did in 2022: anticipating a vote on a constitutional amendment they didn’t like (abortion…
Columnist Dana Hess deems Brian Bengs’s proposed initiated amendment to immunize voter-approved ballot measures from Legislative tinkering for seven years a clumsy and unnecessary measure:…
Last week Attorney General Marty Jackley issued his draft ballot explanation for Aberdeen Democrat Brian Bengs’s proposed initiated amendment to prohibit Legislative repeal and amendment…
Legislators proposed eight constitutional amendments for the 2024 ballot this Session. We get to vote on just one. House members proposed four amendments via House…
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…
House Bill 1200‘s geographical quota for constitutional amendment petitions would make it practically impossible for citizens to put constitutional amendments on the ballot. But no…
When I received the Eighth Circuit’s solid affirmation of my challenge to South Dakota’s unconstitutionally early 12-month deadline for submitting initiative petitions, I considered teasing…
The South Dakota Republican Party’ latest attack on direct democracy is House Bill 1200, which would impose a geographical quota on petition signatures to place…