A couple of years ago, South Dakota’s worst Secretary of State ever, Jason Gant, resorted to the devious trick of appealing to the understaffed Election Advisory…
Tag: voting rights
Jackson County is spending one and a half million of your tax dollars (not their local dollars, but yours, South Dakotans!) to keep Lakota people in Wanblee and…
Your tax dollars are hard at work defending Jackson County’s dogged desire to keep it hard for Indians to vote. Even though the West River county has Judge Karen Schreier and…
The U.S. Fifth Circuit declared Texas’s strict voter ID law discriminatory yesterday. The court rejected a lower court ruling that the requirement to present one of seven state-approved…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs called me a few minutes ago to inform me that Senate Bill 69 will now be known as Referred Law 19. Yes, that…
In a week consisting mostly of responding to remarkable political news with regurgitated press releases from its patrons instead of any original analysis, Dakota War College limps forward with a question about…
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is promoting universal voter registration, a system used in many other democracies, to spotlight and challenge what she sees as a systematic effort…
Nobody likes Senate Bill 69, the Incumbent Protection Plan. Democrats oppose it. Republicans of widely varied stripes oppose it. Independents oppose it. Rapid City’s Kim Wright,…
The program for the public informational session on the petition drives to refer SB 69 and SB 177 just got more interesting: Joining the spectrum-spanning roster speaking…