Via her Busy Ewe Farm & Fiber website, initiative sponsor Brenda Anderson offers this four-page brief on what she is calling the “South Dakota Dairy…
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The 2028 election cycle begins with our first proposed ballot measure… on raw milk! On Friday, Attorney General Marty Jackley issued a draft title and…
Rick Weiland is still collecting signatures for his proposed constitutional amendments to protect initiative and referendum rights, but Mike Mueller, Julie Frye-Mueller, and Matt Smith…
I was already to lament the passing of Tuesday’s deadline for initiative petitions with no filings from any of the circulating sponsors… but I keep…
Secretary of State Monae Johnson is not good at reading election law. As I noted Wednesday, SOS Johnson is incorrectly telling people circulating referendum petitions…
Part of Republican lawyer Brian Murphy’s campaign to unseat Senator Jim Mehlhaff in District 24 is promising to protect citizens’ right to initiative and referendum.…
The backers of an initiated constitutional measure to abolish property tax and impose a retail transaction tax are lying to the public about its fiscal…
Republicans hate ballot measures. But last week 30 House Republicans contradicted themselves and voted for more local ballot measures. House Bill 1323 would give local…
Yesterday was a noteworthy day in initiative trivia (initiatrivia?) in that it was not noteworthy. Speaker Jon Hansen and his fellow South Dakota Republicans, who…
The petition process is near and dear to my heart. Naturally, I notice among Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s 17 proposals for election law changes…