Rapid City attorney Jim Leach had to spend his St. Patrick’s Day in St. Paul, Minnesota, defending South Dakotans’ right to circulate ballot question petitions…
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On November 4, 2009, the South Dakota Secretary of State reported that registered Democratic voters made up 38.36% of the electorate. That share has decreased…
Given Senator Steinhauer’s effort to coax the hospitals into withdrawing Amendment D, Dakotans for Health might want to keep circulating its Medicaid expansion initiative petition.…
Hey, new District 15 Democrats! Get out Saturday and sign some petitions for good legislators! Senator Reynold Nesiba invites you to his house Saturday, January…
A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…
Even paying circulators $22 an hour couldn’t get South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws 16,961 signatures in four slim weeks on its Plan B petition…
According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…
South Dakota democracy still has a fighting chance in federal court. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann denied the state’s request that he stay his…
If you’re looking for a quick two weeks of work, the four committees circulating ballot question initiatives would be happy to put you to work.…