Now that the South Dakota Newspaper Association is party to a lawsuit seeking the repeal of Initiated Measure 24, the Rapid City Journal lets fly with an…
Tag: ballot questions
Representative Jon Hansen’s first Wednesday hoghouse was about creating cost and complication for ballot question sponsors at the end of the petition process. His second…
On January 6, I pointed out how the Secretary of State’s office had read statute exactly wrong in advising that ballot question sponsors need to…
Senate Joint Resolution 1, the plot to take away more of your voice and let legislators sit in Pierre for four years at a stretch,…
My relative lack of enthusiasm for 2018’s five ballot measures was reflected in one odd statistic from our general election results: a larger percentage of voters…
On the 2018 ballot measures, South Dakotans showed a high aversion to change. South Dakotans rejected the two measures that could have made a substantive…
David Owen and the Chamber of Commerce are girding for battle against Amendment W, the Anti-Corruption and Voter Protection Act intended to re-instate Initiated Measure…
A new mystery ballot question committee formed last week. Over lunch on Friday, one Brenden Boudreau of Windsor, Colorado, formed “South Dakota Taxpayer’s PAC.” Strangeness…
Well, nuts. It looks like this year all the crummy ballot questions are qualifying while most of the good ones aren’t. Secretary of State Shantel…