Someone in the comment section got me thinking about girls versus boys in the contests for South Dakota Legislature. Let’s stroll through some numbers, with…
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Senator Lance Russell has been running for attorney general since last summer. He also declared his candidacy for reëlection to his District 30 Senate seat…
Out of 66 counties where candidates filed to run for sheriff this year, 39 had just one candidate for the job. Two counties—Todd and Hand—had…
We can’t make a final count of candidates and primaries yet; the Secretary of State’s office still needs to process petitions that slid through her…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs hasn’t spoken up to oppose Donald Trump’s unnerving plot to send Secret Service agents into our polling places to watch…
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…
Donald Trump could send armed Secret Service agents to patrol polling places during the 2018 general election. So says Section 4012 of House Resolution 2825,…
Rep. G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants special treatment for his new out-of-state friends’ revised version of Marsy’s Law, the crime victims bill of rights. That…
Yesterday I mentioned draft legislation the state Board of Elections will consider later this month to decertify Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) devices for South Dakota’s…
The South Dakota Board of Elections is poised to give more love to third parties and less love to Russian hackers and electronic voting machines.…