Coronavirus did not depress voter turnout in South Dakota’s primary. We had a higher percentage of voters cast ballots in this year’s primary, a contest…
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Voting by mail seems reasonably popular here in Brown County. Auditor Cathy McNickle tells the Aberdeen American News that the courthouse has already received ballots…
If you read the blog regularly, you’ll understand if I am keenly attentive to any measure that affects the ability of citizens to use petitions…
Are young Americans finally ready to fulfill our hopes for civic engagement and take elections seriously? A new report from the Tufts Institute for Democracy…
90% of Madison voters don’t really care that Marshall Dennert finally won an election and beat out two-term incumbent Roy Lindsay to become their next…
Who’s the most awesome Democrat in South Dakota? If we can get past the laughter (awesome? in a party that hasn’t moved the needle away…
The surge in numerical voter turnout that appears to have been driven by the excitement generated by Billie Sutton’s failed campaign has one downside (for…
I just heard Seth Tupper say that Billie Sutton’s second-place finish last night was “near miraculous.” If that’s a miracle, then your God has no…
There are 111,894 reasons for statewide candidates to spend a lot of time campaigning in Sioux Falls. Four are KSFY, KDLT, KELO, and that Sioux…
Aberdeen is apparently satisfied with the local status quo. Every incumbent on our local ballots won last night, and 90% of my neighbors are not concerned enough about the…