While I was out and about on my blog tour last August, I learned that Jackson County was balking at a federally funded, state-approved plan to open a satellite early-voting center in Wanblee, a mostly Lakota community 28 miles from…
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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…
Democrat Angelia Schultz hits the Intertubes with the three-point promise she'll uphold if you elect her Secretary of State: Schultz promises the opposite of the ills wrought by the Republican regime in this important office over the last four years:…
Pat Powers and the South Dakota Republican Party continue to scream about Burt Elliott's questionable residency status. I continue to find the question of where we allow a citizen to register to vote practically and Constitutionally important: should the Schoenbeck…
The early voting stations for American Indians in South Dakota aren't running too smoothly. Fall River County auditor Sue Ganje set up the Shannon County station in a five-foot-by-ten-foot entryway, making it hard to process all the Indian voters who…
Secretary of State Jason Gant is apparently determined to go out flipping the bird at American Indian voters. Questioned about four Indian voters' lawsuit against Jackson County demanding a satellite early-voting station in Wanblee, Secretary Gant asserts the following: “We…
Last month I reported that Jackson County was refusing to set up an early-voting satellite station in Wanblee to allow locals to enjoy the same access to early voting as all other South Dakotans without having to make the long…