One thing our new Secretary of State Steve Barnett can get to work on on his first day in that lovely office is fixing the…
Tag: ballot questions
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…
In the same press release announcing the rejection of the redistricting petition, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs confirms a teeny-tiny concern that occurred to me…
Yesterday wasn’t all good for ballot measures in the Legislature. The Senate barely passed House Bill 1177, Rep. Drew Dennert’s part in the Republican push…
Advocates of ballot questions and free speech can thank Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) for bumbling his way into killing House Bill 1282, another attack on…
Ballot question committees enjoyed some small victories yesterday in Pierre. First, ballot question committees have won the right to immortality. Senate Bill 128 repeals the burdensome…