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Posts tagged as “Jason Gant”

Voter Turnout Dismal in South Dakota Primary: Blame Gant?

Secretary of State Jason Gant had predicted that turnout in South Dakota's primary would be a better-than-average 50%. Statewide, turnout was 20.5%, about the same disappointing number in the first primary Gant ran in 2012. The only counties in which…

Walker Says Petition Challenge Came Too Late; Gant Reads Law

Mary Perpich successfully challenged Clayton Walker's nominating petition, ending his aspiration to be an Independent candidate for Senate. Secretary of State Jason Gant agreed with Perpich that over 1,600 signatures, nearly half of those Walker submitted, were bogus, leaving him…

South Dakota: Peninsula of Electoral Mediocrity

Northern Plains News spotlights a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts measuring the quality of election administration in each state. Their findings offer solid metrics showing that the quality of election administration in South Dakota declined significantly from 2008…

Gant Upholds Bosworth Petition, Forwards Fraud Question to Attorney General

Secretary of State Jason Gant announced today that the challenge to fake Republican U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth's nominating petition did not result in the discovery of enough invalid signatures to disquality Bosworth from the primary ballot. Secretary Gant sent…

GOP Mud-Wrestling: Miller Encouraged to Challenge Krebs for SOS

Here I thought Shantel Krebs was the South Dakota Republican Party's hero, or at least their dutiful heavy, for uprooting the scandalously incompetent Jason Gant from the 2014 candidates' garden. But now some Republicans sound like they want to throw…

Gant Revises HAVA Plan to Approve Early-Voting Stations for Indians

We're down, we're up, we're down... and we're up! Secretary of State Jason Gant appears to be getting the message that discrimination isn't cool. After the rejection of his Indian voter-suppression bill in committee last month and blowback from an…