Black Hawk activist Nick Reid has received approval from the Secretary of State to circulate his petition for an initiated amendment to implement open primaries…
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The state hasn’t given up the fight to suppress voter rights by suppressing the circulation of ballot question petitions. Ten days after Judge Lawrence Piersol…
South Dakota’s hospital lobby is tweeting and its partners at The Fairness Project say they are working on expanding Medicaid in South Dakota, but the South…
A year and a half ago, when Republican legislators scrambled to come up with a replacement for their petition circulator registry scheme that I destroyed…
South Dakota makes the New York Times again, this time as part of the Republican Party’s nationwide effort to curb any and all voting rights that…
While everybody had their eye on Kristi Noem’s unconstitutional effort in the South Dakota Supreme Court to take away our constitutional right to write our…
The hospital lobby has finally filed its final Medicaid expansion initiative petition for circulation. The Secretary of State stamped the petition approved on March 25,…
Hospital Lobby May Launch Medicaid Expansion Petition in April; Competing Petitions Expect Coalition
In the undercard to PBS NewsHour’s report on the effort to reverse South Dakota’s resistance to Medicaid expansion, Dan Bush suggests the hospital lobby may launch…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) promised a clean-up amendment to improve his devious Senate Bill 77, which will crush citizen initiatives by forcing petitioners to use…
In my conversation with Amy Scott-Stoltz Sunday about how to circulate ballot question petitions, I emphasized that volunteer circulators do not have to register with the…