Some members of the Senate aren’t waiting for the Supreme Court to clarify whether the Lieutenant Governor can break ties on votes on final passage…
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When citizens put constitutional amendments on the ballot, Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) gets all worried that voters will destroy rural residents’ rights. But now when…
Remember how back in September I noted that South Dakota’s Republican legislators tend to put constitutional amendments on the ballot that restrict rights? Well, here…
In addition to obtaining the Attorney General’s title and explanation and the Legislative Research Council’s fiscal note, the sponsors of the proposed initiative to ban…
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…
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…