I noticed that Secretary of State Steve Barnett has posted potential ballot questions for 2024 down at the bottom of the 2022 ballot questions page.…
Tag: initiative
KELO-TV tries to explain the League of Women Voters’ legal challenge to South Dakota’s 30-day residency requirement for ballot question petition circulators. Unfortunately, reporter Jazzmine…
[Disclosure: I work for Dakotans for Health. This blog post is written on my own time and dime.] Those South Dakotans marching up Phillips Avenue…
Have Clipboard, Will Travel—Installment V by Bob Newland Imagine you are a Cadillac dealer. Your median product sells for $100k. You want to hire someone…
Benjamin Case is a sociologist who studies politics and social change. He is a postdoctoral research scholar at Arizona State University’s Center for Work and…
Representative Jon Hansen has a really hard time selling his Amendment C with an honest argument. With just five days to go until everyone gets…
John Fiksdal hates Amendment C, the latest Republican effort to put minority rule into South Dakota’s Constitution and make it harder for South Dakotans to…
Big-business opponents of democracy have failed to place on North Dakota’s ballot a measure that would have put a 60% vote threshold and a single-subject…
Marijuana advocate Bob Newland has written two columns—May 7 and May 10—on his petition drive to have Meade County vote on issuing more than one…
The Republican line on Amendment C has been that the Legislature has to muster a two-thirds vote to approve new taxes and special spending bills,…