An eager reader and keen observer of the Legislature responds to my morning post about Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s inclination to reduce absentee voting…
Tag: early voting
Republican Secretary of State Monae Johnson is helping her party’s war on voting access by proposing to reduce the absentee voting period. She can’t mess…
Senator Ryan Maher (R-28/Isabel) attacked democracy to protect his drive time last Session by pushing Senate Bill 56, which raised the signature requirement for a…
In a little bit of unexpected voter suppression, Pennington County’s four-day workweek, implemented at the beginning of this year, means Rapid City voters haven’t been…
South Dakota has banned ballot dropboxes, much to the anti-democratic glee of Secretary of State Monae Johnson and her office wingnuts, but Pennington County says…
One of two bills seeking to ban absentee ballot drop boxes passed its first committee vote yesterday. House Bill 1165 tucks its drop box ban at…
Remember how Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were eating pizza together in Boston last August? Ah, good times…. Their pizza date was part of a…
Indian voting rights advocates have been fighting for years to get early-voting satellite stations to give our Lakota neighbors equal ballot access. Representative Shawn Bordeaux…
South Dakota’s legislators are doing their part in the nationwide Republican war on voting rights. In their ongoing effort to let fewer voices be heard…
South Dakotans cast 219,074 absentee ballots in the 2020 general election, more than twice the number cast early in the 2016 general election. More than…