The Green Party is circulating a petition to win official political party status in South Dakota. To place any candidates on South Dakota’s general election…
Tag: ballot access
In early April, I argued that requiring candidates and ballot question committees to circulate paper petitions face-to-face with voters during a pandemic, without extending deadlines…
South Dakota has a “sore loser” law, SDCL 12-7-5, and an absurdly early independent petition deadline (this year: April 28!) before the primary, that prevent…
Hat tip to independent U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Evans, who is more keenly tuned to alternative-party news than I am! Last week, following the official…
My fellow South Dakotans, you and I now each owe the South Dakota Libertarian and Constitution parties 71 cents. Back in February, the state lost…
I initially thought Larry Rhoden’s failure to timely file the statement of organization for his campaign for lieutenant governor only subjected him to the possibility of a…
Apparently the law is a mere technicality. For the second time this summer, Judge Patricia Devaney has allowed an illegitimate candidate to appear on the…
Judge Patricia Devaney heard arguments in the Lance Russell ballot access case yesterday, but she said she needed another day to figure out how to…
Update 11:02 CST: In my original post, I erroneously accused the Legislature of failing to fix House Bill 1286 and South Dakota’s unconstitutional ballot access laws.…
Lori Stacey’s right: the House messed up House Bill 1286 yesterday. What started as Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s emergency bill to moot the ballot…