With Republicans Al Novstrup and Dan Kaiser victorious in the District 3 House race, we will not have the opportunity to test aspiring assistant majority leader Lee Schoenbeck's determination to veto the will of the people and refuse Democrat Burt…
Posts tagged as “voter registration”
Paging Assistant Majority Leader-in-Waiting Lee Schoenbeck... Mr. Schoenbeck, Line 1... Politico's Jake Sherman just Burt Elliotted Larry Pressler, whose principal residence appears still to be Washington D.C.: Pressler, who served as a Republican in Congress from 1975 to 1997, and…
Northern Plains News reports that conservative watchdogs True the Vote finds that more than 36,000 names on South Dakota's voting rolls may be duplicated in other states. May be. True the Vote offers no evidence that any of these duplicate…
Here's one more reason for South Dakota Democrats to stop staring at their shoes and get out and fight. According to a new report from number-hungry Northern Plains News, Democrats make up a higher percentage of South Dakota's electorate than…
Unlike bees, human populations in South Dakota aren't collapsing. Northern Plains News reports a turnaround in population trends in South Dakota, with a majority of South Dakota counties seeing growth between 2010 and 2012. Note that West River is almost…
Bob Mercer noted earlier this week that the October 1 voter registration numbers from the Secretary of State's office show Independent registrations in South Dakota cracking 100,000 for the first time. Indies have increased their official numbers by 6.5% percent…
An eager reader sends me an article under the heading "another thing for Jason Gant to screw up": Did you know that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is connected to voting rights? The National Voter Registration Act of…
Mr. Mercer continues to deplore the South Dakota Democratic Party's poor performance in voter registration totals, and rightfully so. According to Secretary of State Jason Gant's latest numbers, on October 1, 187,063 South Dakota voters were registered Democrats. We Dems…