A year and a half ago, when Republican legislators scrambled to come up with a replacement for their petition circulator registry scheme that I destroyed…
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While everybody had their eye on Kristi Noem’s unconstitutional effort in the South Dakota Supreme Court to take away our constitutional right to write our…
A year ago, when the anti-democracy schemes in our Legislature passed 2020 Senate Bill 180 to get out of trouble with the courts, I said…
In my conversation with Amy Scott-Stoltz Sunday about how to circulate ballot question petitions, I emphasized that volunteer circulators do not have to register with the…
…And We Still Need a Ruling on Petition Deadlines! This news will be no comfort to the family of Joe Boever and all South Dakotans…
South Dakota and I are taking each other to federal court today. Judges Gruender, Erickson, and Kobes of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will…
Thinking about initiatives gets me thinking about petitions and the challenges folks will face come November when they start collecting signatures to place substantive policy…
Senate Bill 180, the revamped ballot question petition circulator registry and badging mandate, is on its way to Governor Kristi Noem’s desk. In brief remarks…
Senate Bill 180, the revised registry and badging scheme for paid ballot question petition circulators, passed House Local Government on Tuesday with one significant amendment.…
We’ll get to see who, if anyone, shows up this morning in Senate Local Government to testify for or against Senate Bill 180, the retread…