Amid the hubbub of a perp walk and press conference for former illegitimate—and current potentially prosecutable—U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth today, it's easy to forget that Republicans' fourth-favorite candidate in Tuesday's five-way race isn't the only one-time Senate hopeful facing…
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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…
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…
Rounds for Senate staffer Justin Rollins got really excited about casting his primary ballot early yesterday. He took a picture of his marked ballot and posted it on Twitter to encourage all of his followers to vote for Mike Rounds…
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…
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…
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…
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…