Before heading out to the State Fair, Attorney General Marty Jackley released his explanation of Drey Samuelson’s vote-by-mail ballot initiative (the one that does not include…
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Senator Jim Bolin keeps crying that we need to protect our state constitution, and yesterday the interim task force on initiative and referendum mostly agreed…
The Legislature’s interim task force on initiative and referendum met yesterday and, taking no further public input, approved nine of its twenty draft proposals for…
The Interim Task Force on Initiative and Referendum meets tomorrow to consider twenty draft proposals for reforming (and, all too frequently, hurting) South Dakota’s ballot…
Speaker of the House G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) announced this week that he is abandoning one of the three ballot measures he has proposed…
Call Speaker Mickelson! Out-of-staters are trying again to co-opt South Dakota’s ballot question process! The South Dakota Right to Life booth at the Brown County…
Senator Jim Bolin joins his colleagues Rep. Tim Reed and Senator Ernie Otten in the continuing Republican war against people power. Even though he said…
Responding to the revision error in the currently circulating recreational-marijuana petition, Rep. Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) said on August 1 that he and fellow interim initiative…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson has collected at least 160 signatures on his ballot initiative petition to ban out-of-state contributions to South Dakota ballot question committees.…
In an unusual announcement for a ballot question committee, Represent South Dakota says that, as of August 12, it had collected 16,484 petition signatures, over…