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…
Tag: petitions
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…
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…