I ask to sign a petition, and this petition circulator not only refuses to let me sign but threatens to call the cops. Here’s my encounter with…
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Chad Peterson e-mails from Vermillion to report a suspicious petition circulator on the University of South Dakota campus. Peterson says he encountered the circulator yesterday in…
Let me try to keep my editorializing to a minimum and simply show you what I saw around town this morning. On my way out…
Three petitioners carrying the fake 18% rate cap petition were ejected from the Brown County Fairgrounds today for petitioning without permission of the NESD Celtic Faire and Games, the…
On Thursday, Angela Kennecke sought some legal perspective from Attorney General Marty Jackley on the allegedly illegal tactics of out-of-state petition circulators. A.G. Jackley was somewhat…
Let’s focus on one element of Deputy Secretary of State Kea Warne’s advisory e-mail to petition circulators, the law requiring petition circulators to witness each signature they…
In response to a flurry of questions and complaints arising this week over questionable activities by individuals and organizations promoting ballot initiatives, the Secretary of State’s office yesterday…
The usury industry appears to be mobilizing more resources to fight the proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at 36% and box predatory payday lenders out…
The source of the accusation that Scotland-bound Rev. Rep. Steve Hickey committed Bosworthian fraud on his 2012 nominating petition is Hickey’s former District 9 Republican ticket-mate and…
SB 69 Referral Creates Timeline Snarl with SB 67: No Court Challenges for Some Nominating Petitions!
Our successful referral of Senate Bill 69—now Referred Law 19!—to a public vote creates the need for the Legislature to conduct some minor yet urgent statutory clean-up…