Referendum petitions are due Monday after next, June 29. We’ll be busy counting and organizing our petitions next weekend, so this weekend is the last big weekend for…
Tag: elections
No wonder my neighbor Ken Santema hasn’t been blogging much; he’s been working on a lawsuit with Brendan Johnson! Senate Bill 69, the misfiring petition reform bill…
Attorney General Marty Jackley is working to beat back the misinformation coming from diehard excusers of convicted felon Annette Bosworth. Saturday he told this blog that the state attempted to negotiate plea…
The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a lower court’s refusal to place accused petition fraudster Clayton G. Walker on the 2014 Senate ballot in South Dakota. The Eighth…
Turnout in local elections suggests democracy is losing to apathy: Rapid City school election: 33.6% [Update 12:25 CDT: Pennington County election supervisor Lori Severson tells me there…
I stopped by the Brown County Courthouse a couple hours ago and voted in today’s Aberdeen Central school board election. I was voter #337 in the community. Mayor…
We’ve seen numerous examples of how Jason Gant’s incompetence as Secretary of State cost this state in terms of electoral integrity and voting rights. Now…
My Canadian correspondent Barbara notes the surprising results of Tuesday’s provincial elections in Alberta. South Dakotans may want to take note for two reasons. First, as Salon eloquently…
Yesterday’s local elections put a little extra spring in my step. I told folks in Brookings that they should vote for my friend Scott Meyer, and they…
Hey, I think Rick Knobe’s with us on referring both SB 177 (the youth minimum wage) and SB 69 (the mutated petition reform bill). Knobe recognizes that…