Dell Rapids has enjoyed unusual success in electing legislators in the past decade. While this lovely Sioux River Valley town has a population of just…
Tag: redistricting
I made a copy of South Dakota’s newly approved “Sparrow” Legislative district maps for the 2020s yesterday and started marking where our current legislators and…
The House and Senate have agreed on a compromise map, the Sparrow map we discussed in this morning’s post. Bob Mercer notes that the much…
Launching a once-in-history impeachment proved easier than completing the once-a-decade drawing of Legislative districts. Negotiations and cartographic scribblings dragged on at the Capitol through a second…
Those of you who’d like to compare the House Grouse and Senate Blackbird redistricting maps can try reading the text of the two bills proposed…
Friends of a fair and independent redistricting process evidently failed to collect enough signatures by yesterday’s deadline to submit their petition for a constitutional amendment…
As the Legislature convenes today in Pierre to debate new district maps, Bob Mercer reports from the Capitol that the House and Senate may still…
Speaking of dumb things out of legislators’ mouths, Representative Kevin Jensen (R-16/ Canton) shows his willful failure to understand redistricting with this criticism of proposed…
Sponsors of South Dakota’s proposed initiated constitutional amendments have two weeks and two days to collect their 33,921 petition signatures and submit their completed petitions…
A couple of Twitter friends point out one radical bit of gerrymandering in the House-favored “Grouse” redistricting map proposed by Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen): Vermillion…