As the biggest petition nerd in South Dakota, I’m embarrassed not to have noticed sooner the third initiative proposal posted to the Secretary of State’s…
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Governor Kristi Noem is using Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom and South Dakota Highway Patrol Colonel Rick Miller as plaintiff-pawns in a crazy ploy to…
In an interview with WNAX Monday, South Dakota Farmers Union president Doug Sombke said that South Dakota farm families have a dire need for health…
Dakotans for Health is evidently taking my advice and gearing up to launch its petition drive to place Medicaid expansion on the 2022 ballot as…
Not helping democracy amidst pandemic is the United States Supreme Court. On Tuesday, or the fifth time this year, the high Court reversed a lower…
Thinking about initiatives gets me thinking about petitions and the challenges folks will face come November when they start collecting signatures to place substantive policy…
Coronavirus didn’t kill the payday-lending-cap petition in Nebraska. Petition sponsors submitted more than 120,000 signatures Thursday, well above the 85,200 required to make the November…
In early April, I argued that requiring candidates and ballot question committees to circulate paper petitions face-to-face with voters during a pandemic, without extending deadlines…
SD Dems exec Pam Cole says coronavirus killed Dems’ chances of getting a U.S. House candidate on the 2020 ballot: But, Cole said, the biggest…
South Dakota Republicans are concerned about candidate residency, but only when it involves non-Republicans. They are willing to go to court to claim that the…