Whoo-hoo! We are perhaps just days away from another initiative petition hitting the streets. South Dakota Open Primaries announced yesterday that it has submitted the…
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Former Republican legislator and failed 2008 U.S. Senate candidate Joel Dykstra helped pass South Dakota’s near-absolute abortion ban back in 2005. Now he’s helping Representative…
Yesterday, Attorney General Marty Jackley released his final revised version of his official title and explanation for the proposed initiated amendment to strike the single-subject…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has released a profoundly straightforward and downright boring draft explanation of the marijuana lobby’s proposed initiative to remove the single-subject rule…
Governor Kristi Noem can make sure Rick Weiland has until May 2024 to collect signatures to place the food-tax repeal on the 2024 ballot by…
When Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts couldn’t get the Nebraska Legislature to pass a voter ID bill, he went stumping around the state in 2022 to promote…
Another important bill headed for conference committee is Senate Bill 113, in which the Legislature attempts to replace the unconstitutional 12-month deadline for initiative petitions…
In Colorado the circulation period was six months, and the filing deadline was three months before the election. South Dakota’s circulation period is one year. In…
Senate State Affairs saved the state from another lawsuit yesterday. On an 8–1 vote, the committee killed House Bill 1200, Rep. Elizabeth May’s (R-27/Kyle) unconstitutional…
Rick Weiland and his ballot question committee, Dakotans for Health, hasn’t even begun circulating its initiative petition to repeal South Dakota’s unusual and immoral sales…