Also Offers to Help Minor Parties Keep Official Status The South Dakota Board of Elections met yesterday to consider draft legislation that it may propose to the 2017…
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You know that discussion we’re having about the wisdom of posting Bob Newland’s ballot (or anyone else’s) online? The Board of Elections appears to have read up to the…
So let me see if I have this straight. Senator John Thune, Governor Dennis Daugaard, and Lt. Gov. Matt Michels have all called for the man they…
Senator John Thune maintains his awkward embrace of Donald Trump by (a) avoiding comment on his candidate’s poor performance in Monday’s Presidential debate and (b) pretending…
That Sioux Falls paper has done voters the favor of archiving its livestream of Thursday’s statewide ballot question forum. That video features, in order: [17:30] Amendment T—end gerrymandering…
No, really, I mean it, says Judge Karen Schreier. Kurt Evans and Wayne Schmidt don’t get spots on the 2016 ballot. In an August 31…
More polling! Let’s hear what you, dear readers, think of Referred Law 19, the election/petition reform bill that I have labeled the Incumbent Protection Act.…
Friend of the blog David Bergan notes that the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce has posted issue briefs on all ten statewide ballot questions. (Actually, there…
Rep. Dan Dryden (R-34/Rapid City) died yesterday. Rep. Dryden was running for re-election to the House, along with fellow Republican Senator Craig Tieszen and Democratic challenger Steve…
Plus: Herseth Sandlin versus Huether in November 2018? Multiple conversations this weekend found my interlocutors asking me whether voters will approve Amendment V, the open…