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…
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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…
Ever the Constitution hawks, Sen. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) and Rep. Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) rush to push South Dakota law beyond the envelope of a new…
Dennis Daugaard appointed 18 legislators to vacancies in eight years. He didn’t get to make his first appointment until November of his first year in…
Governing has named Former Denver city and county elections director Amber McReynolds one of its 2018 Public Officials of the Year for her efforts to…
The surge in numerical voter turnout that appears to have been driven by the excitement generated by Billie Sutton’s failed campaign has one downside (for…
Yesterday the Arizona Secretary of State placed on the ballot a new initiative to raise state income tax on folks making more than $250K a…