In 2016, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs was able to plow through eight ballot question petitions by February 4. This year, Secretary Krebs has finished reviewing…
Tag: Secretary of State
The Secretary of State has reversed an interpretation of campaign finance law to align with an interpretation I offered in 2016. When I ran for…
Petition challenges during the past couple of election cycles have gone nowhere in the Secretary of State’s office, largely because our Secretaries of State have…
The Trump Administration’s managerial incompetence and appeasement of Russia are opening the door for a smart South Dakota election nerd to rocket to the top in…
Corporations doing business in South Dakota have to register and file annual reports with the Secretary of State. However, the Secretary of State would like to let…
The South Dakota Board of Elections mustered a meager quorum today (five of seven members on the conference call at the start, but only four of seven members…
“Gant Scam Continues!” hoots an eager reader in my inbox. Why, yes, it does. Along with drafting reforms (and a couple deforms) to election and petition law,…
The state has responded to Melissa Mentele’s lawsuit to place the medical cannabis initiative on the November ballot. The state offers three main arguments: The Secretary of…
Don’t knock my house down yet, bulldozer drivers! I spoke too soon about the quality of work done by Initiated Measure 23’s petition circulators. Secretary of…
Maybe Annette Bosworth is a Republican after all. According to KCCR, she and her attorneys Robert Van Norman and Dana Hana don’t want experts testifying at…