Benjamin S. Case and Michael McQuarrie of the Center for Work and Demcoracy at Arizona State University have released “Majority Rules: The Battle for Ballot…
Posts tagged as “referendum”
A Republican legislature places a conservative amendment to the state constitution on the primary ballot rather than the general election ballot. The primary usually has…
Representative Jon Hansen has a really hard time selling his Amendment C with an honest argument. With just five days to go until everyone gets…
Meanwhile, South Dakota legislators continue to fight about pot. Yesterday, House State Affairs killed Senate Bill 3, which would legalize recreational marijuana, and hijacked Senate…
When Republicans offer bills dealing with ballot measures, they’re usually trying to take away our right to put laws to a vote. After all, we’re…
In her continuing campaign for the 2024 Trumpublican Vice-Presidential nomination, Governor Kristi Noem is proposing two anti-abortion bills, a copycat Texas ban than would prohibit…
Where’s the beef? Not near Worthing, at least not in the immediate future. According to unofficial results from yesterday’s Lincoln County referendum on a proposed…
Lincoln County residents get to vote next week on whether to allow a new beef plant to stink up the neighborhood around Worthing. East Dakota…
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) doesn’t know jack about constitutional law, but at least he and his pal Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) know how to…
The South Dakota Supreme Court has done what Republicans appoint judges to do: uphold Republican election-rigging. Despite remarkably bad lawyering by the Attorney General’s office,…