The Republican war of attrition on your right to petition continues. Instead of duking it out in conference committee, House Republicans yesterday said fine, whatever, to…
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The Senate yesterday passed an amended version of House Bill 1094, the latest monkey wrench Republicans want to throw in to the initiative and referendum…
Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) said at Saturday’s crackerbarrel that he supported Senate Bill 100 to reduce the number of signatures conservation district candidates have to secure…
House Bill 1094, the unnecessary and possibly unconstitutional proposal to make South Dakotans get approval from the Secretary of State before exercising their First Amendment…
Prior to Senate State Affairs’ summary execution of Senator Reynold Nesiba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) Senate Bill 157, a real effort to improve civic engagement by removing unfair…
I sent my petition sample, circulator form, and sponsor’s affidavit to the Secretary of State yesterday to move my meta-initiative petition toward circulation: If you’re…
Representative Jon Hansen’s first Wednesday hoghouse was about creating cost and complication for ballot question sponsors at the end of the petition process. His second…
Real petition reform is getting a hearing, and democracy needs you to testify! Senator Reynold Nesiba’s Senate Bill 157, a copy of my planned ballot…
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) finally filled two of his hoghouse bills dealing with ballot question petitions yesterday in House State Affairs. One of them,…
On January 6, I pointed out how the Secretary of State’s office had read statute exactly wrong in advising that ballot question sponsors need to…