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…
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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…
Monday’s voter registration count shows that, over the past year, 30,889 more people have signed up to vote. That’s a 12-month increase of 5.64%, to…
South Dakota voters, if you have already submitted your ballot, good work! You have demonstrated your commitment to democracy and to public health. If you…
Yesterday the Secretary of State reported that 202,464 South Dakotans had cast early ballots. That’s 100,074 more early ballots than were cast by Election Day…
“You’re no good to me tired,” Prime Minister Churchill says to his (fictional) secretary Venetia Scott in The Crown. Minnehaha County auditor Bob Litz is…
Minnehaha County backed away from placing ballot dropboxes around Sioux Falls after opposition from Republican mayor Paul TenHaken. Lincoln County decided it didn’t need the…