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…
Tag: elections
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.…
Joe Kirby, De Knudson, Chuck Parkinson, and friends are finally circulating their initiative petition to create open primaries in South Dakota. They got the Attorney…
The South Dakota Board of Elections meets on September 27 to consider new legislation for 2018 and hold public hearings on a bunch of small…
Among the ballot measures still simmering in the Secretary of State’s “potential” pot is Drey Samuelson’s proposal for automatic voter registration and voting by mail. The proposed…