Dakota War College does its sponsors’ bidding again, this time forwarding the Koch Brothers’ effort to jam direct democracy by discouraging people from signing any…
Tag: petition
Aberdeen joins the fall celebrations of sport this weekend with both high school and university homecomings. I’ll participate tangentially in the jockocratic jubilation—and you can…
The Constitution Party of South Dakota yesterday announced that Kurt Evans will seek our tiniest official party’s nomination for Governor in 2018. The CP notes that…
Petition challenges during the past couple of election cycles have gone nowhere in the Secretary of State’s office, largely because our Secretaries of State have…
Joe Kirby, De Knudson, Chuck Parkinson, and friends are finally circulating their initiative petition to create open primaries in South Dakota. They got the Attorney…
The South Dakota Board of Elections meets on September 27 to consider new legislation for 2018 and hold public hearings on a bunch of small…
Alas, Republican representatives continue their push to undermine voters’ confidence in their own initiative and referendum process. Senator John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) apparently spent…
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…
One of my District 3 legislators, Republican Drew Dennert, uses a guest spot on the SDGOP spin blog to encourage people to approach ballot measure…