Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced late Friday that she has again rejected the petition filed by Melissa Mentele and New Approach South Dakota to…
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Two down, one to go: Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced today that Aaron Lorenzen and Craig S. Olson did not identify enough bogus signatures to…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has ruled against my challenge of Lisa Furlong’s fake-18%-rate-cap petition. In details she sent me this morning, Secretary Krebs says my…
Online petitions aren’t worth the electrons on which they are printed (at least not until I take over the Senate, pass a secure online petitioning law, and…
The Watertown City Council is more inclined to take petition enforcement into its own hands than the Minnehaha County Auditor’s Office. As Jonathan Ellis reported last week,…
Has the Bosworth precedent kept a municipal referendum off the ballot in Watertown? Glacial Lakes Energy in Watertown wants to build a four-track rail loop that will allow…
Jay Williams tells the press he has gathered just about twice the 706 signatures he needs to get on the ballot as the Democratic candidate…
Bob Mercer’s “Week Ahead in State Government” column is a useful heads-up on upcoming meetings and deadlines. However, he makes one important error in this week’s edition:…
The South Dakota Legislature is less fond of ochlocracy (like I said, Word of the Day! Scream real loud!) than our U.S. Senators. They didn’t do as…
In more evidence that we all need to know our petition law, Rapid City municipal candidates may have to throw out some signatures they’ve collected and start…