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…
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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…
Among the ballot measures still simmering in the Secretary of State’s “potential” pot is Drey Samuelson’s proposal for automatic voter registration and voting by mail. The proposed…
Chiropractor Fred Deutsch is working hard against the assisted suicide initiative, which hasn’t even made the ballot yet. He spoke this morning in Sioux Falls,…
That’s unexpected: Attorney General Marty Jackley issued another ballot question explanation yesterday, this time for a revised version of the Voter Initiative Protection (VIP) Amendment.…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson has received approval from the Secretary of State to start circulating his unconstitutional proposal to ban out-of-staters from contributing to ballot…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson wants to raise taxes on tobacco to subsidize vo-tech tuition. His proposed initiative foresees up to $20 million in new vo-tech revenue…
With the release yesterday of his explanation of Speaker Mickelson’s unconstitutional ban on out-of-state ballot question campaign contributions, the Attorney General has now cranked out…