Update 2019.05.04 23:05 CDT: The star in the title arises from my conversation with in-house legal scholar Bearcreekbat in the comment section below. While we…
Tag: elections
While chatting about all the Help America Vote Act funds that South Dakota has been slow to spend to help South Dakotans vote, Bob Mercer…
Last year, on March 23, Donald Trump signed into law a measure sending $3,000,000 in new Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funding to South Dakota…
I don’t want to get in the habit of throwing stones at the Judicial Branch, since, as G. Mark Mickelson once told me, legal minds…
The Brown County Democrats hosted a forum for candidates for South Dakota Democratic Party chair last night at the beautiful K.O. Lee Public Library in…
This week Governor Kristi Noem signed two bills to keep ambitious candidates like Lance Russell out of trouble… and endorsed two colliding election laws. Recall…
It didn’t look like any Blue Wave happened in South Dakota last year. We Democrats didn’t win any statewide seats or any more Legislative seats,…
Six individuals are running to chair the South Dakota Democratic Party. How do we choose our chair? As I’ve explained previously, the state party constitution…
Representative Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) says the party affiliation of local polling place officials doesn’t matter: If there’s a shortage of workers, what difference does it…
We’re a Republic, not a Democracy… which Republicans translate as, ‘The less chance you commoners get to vote, the better!” House Majority Leader Lee Qualm…