Yesterday’s election saw voters in seven states deciding 22 ballot measures. Among the noteworthy initiatives and referenda: After five vetoes by cranky Governor LePage, Maine…
Tag: ballot measures
That Sioux Falls paper unfairly brands Rick Knobe’s really good letter about ballot measures resulting from Legislative inaction with a photo of our Congressional delegation…
I have previously lamented the Legislature’s failure to include ballot measure organizers on the Initiative and Referendum Task Force that they created with House Bill 1141. Of fifteen members, only…
Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…
I’m not the only one who thinks the “emergency clause” Republicans are using in House Bill 1069 to repeal Initiated Measure 22 is unconstitutional. Rick Weiland…
Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) has roused 18 Republican colleagues to co-sponsor a poorly worded, unworkable, and unconstitutional restriction on out-of-state campaign contributions to ballot question…
The headline on Dan Peters’s interview with Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) is that the Majority Leader wants to delay the implementation date of voter-approved ballot measures…
Governor Dennis Daugaard reached for an awkward analogy yesterday to justify Republican legislators’ impending attack on our right to put initiatives and referenda on the ballot:…
The fact that Dusty Johnson is running for Congress is pretty cool. But even cooler is the likely reason that we know he’s running now: the swift enactment…
544,393 South Dakotans were registered to vote on Election Day. That’s a record, says Secretary of State Shantel Krebs. The 378,995 who turned out to exercise…