Still no word from Pierre on which if any of the eight initiative petitions submitted this fall have enough signatures to make our 2018 ballot.…
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Last month South Dakota’s Chiesman Center for Democracy launched a last-minute campaign to encourage voters to sign initiative petitions. Sioux Falls grant consultant Michael Wyland…
Senator Jim Bolin presented the Initiative and Referendum Task Force’s mostly bad reforms to the Legislature’s Executive Board Monday. Speaker and E-Board chairman G. Mark Mickelson…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
Open Primaries a Squeaky #5? Nine ballot initiative petitions had a chance of being submitted today; seven came in. Including the Voter Protection and Anti-Corruption…
Dan Lederman is determined to lead the South Dakota Republican Party in a full-scale assault on the legitimacy of popular democracy. He has called ballot…
James Nord checks in with South Dakota’s initiative petitioners and gets both Melissa Mentele and G. Mark Mickelson to cite 15,000 as their current signature…
Pat Powers hates anything that challenges his Republican sponsors’ absolute control of South Dakota politics. Thus, Pat Powers hates ballot measures, in which the voters…
Instead of denigrating democracy like elitist Republicans do against insolent citizens who dare challenge the supremacy of the Legislature, the Chiesman Center for Democracy has…
The South Dakota Democratic Party isn’t just sounding the alarm about all the harm the Trump Administration is doing to rural America (check out their…