Remember what I said Tuesday about how any activists interested in launching an initiative petition drive needed to submit their language by Wednesday to avoid…
Posts tagged as “open primary”
Once again, only a small fraction of South Dakota voters get a say in who serves their county as sheriff. The Secretary of State lists…
Black Hawk activist Nick Reid has received approval from the Secretary of State to circulate his petition for an initiated amendment to implement open primaries…
In 2016, Black Hawk conservative Nick Reid was one of an interesting ideological assortment of advocates for Amendment V, which would have replaced partisan primaries…
South Dakota voters rejected a nonpartisan top-two primary system in 2016. This year the SDGOP leadership quashed Rep. Drew Dennert’s HB 1305, which would have…
Out of 66 counties where candidates filed to run for sheriff this year, 39 had just one candidate for the job. Two counties—Todd and Hand—had…
The top-two open-primary amendment sponsored by Joe Kirby and De Knudson will not be on the November ballot. Secretary of State Shantel Krebs yesterday rejected…
The glut of bills in the hopper include some measures closely connected to initiated measures that have either made the ballot or may still make…
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.…
Neal Gabler writes that the most successful lie that chronically myth-making Republicans have foisted upon us is that liberals are unwelcome deviants from America’s conservative…