The fight for equal voting rights for our Indian neighbors is making progress. Following the successful restoration of Indian voting rights to South Dakota's Help America Vote Act plan (over the morally indefensible objection and machinations of Republican Secretary of…
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On Thursday, Attorney General Marty Jackley filed a motion in federal court to dismiss independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers's lawsuit against Secretary of State Jason Gant. Myers wants Secretary Gant to put Myers's withdrawn running mate Caitlin Collier with his…
Indian voters and their advocates have won a favorable settlement of an important voting rights lawsuit in Montana. The Wandering Medicine v. McCulloch Indian voting rights lawsuit in Montana has many parallels to the Brooks v. Gant case in South…
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…
Greg Belfrage's interview with Rep. Steve Hickey this morning invites a number of conversations. Rep. Hickey said that citizens face a terrible time crunch in trying to review nominating petitions. This year, with partisan petitions due by March 25 and…
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…
Rapid City lawyer and shiny Republican light Sara Frankenstein likes working on Indian voting rights cases. She does not, alas, like Indian voting rights. Frankenstein tried to defend South Dakota counties and Secretary of State Jason Gant in Brooks v.…
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…