Jonathan Ellis catches another example of South Dakota Republicans' use and abuse of state statute to serve their partisan purposes instead of the public welfare. In 2002, Republicans passed a law that forbade individuals running for President or Vice-President to…
Posts tagged as “election”
The South Dakota Democratic Party needs to channel Elizabeth Warren and adopt an unapologetic populist progressivism in defense of the working class. Rick Weiland speaks that Warrenesque language. Rick Weiland also got beat 50–30 in the Senate election. Down with…
Keep your new day job, Shantel. If South Dakota's election results have any bearing on the hotly anticipated 2018 gubernatorial contest, Marty's got you beat by over 30%. Now that Minnehaha County Auditor Bob Litz is finally done wiping the…
I am outraged that Associated Press, that Sioux Falls paper, KSFY, CNN, NBC, and CBS have declared winners in South Dakota's mid-term election while citizens are still voting. So is Secretary of State Jason Gant: CNN declared a winner while…
For the most part, we run pretty good elections in South Dakota. But because we just can't guarantee voting rights for American Indians, the federal Department of Justice has to send election monitors to our reservations: Election monitors will be…
Some predictions are already flowing in. The Displaced Plainsman predicts that Democrats are toast. Our Jenny says Rounds beats Weiland by 12. Readers, I yield the floor: put on your Carnac hats and tell us how the numbers will total…
We haven't heard much from the Libertarian Party of South Dakota this year. They failed to offer a candidate for Governor and thus will lose their status as a recognized political party in South Dakota. But the Libertarians don't plan…