House Bill 1007 carries the watered-down “Citizen Initiative Review Commission” proposal from the Initiative and Referendum Task Force to the 2018 Legislative Session. As I reported…
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The first clear No Way José bill of the 2018 Session is House Bill 1005, one of the products of the mostly feckless and anti-democracy…
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) has a good idea: let’s require ballot question committees to tell us who’s funding their petition drives while they are…
Yesterday I erroneously complained on Twitter that, with just two hours to go before the Initiative and Referendum Task Force met, the Legislative Research Council…
The South Dakota Board of Elections meets on September 27 to consider new legislation for 2018 and hold public hearings on a bunch of small…
The Government Accountability Task Force, another pretense of concern created by the Legislature to distract us from the repeal of the campaign finance reform we…
Alas, Republican representatives continue their push to undermine voters’ confidence in their own initiative and referendum process. Senator John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) apparently spent…
The Legislature’s interim task force on initiative and referendum met yesterday and, taking no further public input, approved nine of its twenty draft proposals for…
Get set for a tax vote in Lake County! The petition drive to refer a new 0.9-mill property tax levy for roads collected enough signatures…
That’s unexpected: Attorney General Marty Jackley issued another ballot question explanation yesterday, this time for a revised version of the Voter Initiative Protection (VIP) Amendment.…