The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) task force may yet do the right thing for South Dakota's Indian voters. Last week Secretary of State Jason Gant released a draft HAVA state plan that ignored concerns raised about voting access for…
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South Dakota's ad hoc Help America Vote Act (HAVA) task force meets tomorrow (Wednesday) at Pierre's Red Rossa (Hills Room, 10 a.m. CST). The Italian diner is an appropriate setting, as the Sage Chickens of the Board of Elections are…
Yesterday Bob Mercer and the GOP spin machine called for resurrecting Senate Bill 33, the Indian Voter Suppression Act, with an amendment to require that private groups who fund voting stations and other elections administration activities reveal their funding sources.…
The Senate Local Government Committee last week quite sensibly killed Senate Bill 33, Secretary of State Jason Gant's latest effort to suppress Indian voting. But now journalist Bob Mercer wants to resurrect it, out of concern that anonymous donors to…
This is how Republicans rebrand themselves to win the youth vote: by ratifying a Constitutional Amendment that has been law since the Nixon era. The 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, passed Congress in March 1971.…
The Senate Local Government committee showed some practical sense this morning and killed Senate Bill 33, Secretary of State Jason Gant's latest Indian-voter-suppression trick. In remarkably vague testimony relying mostly on general xenophobia, Secretary Gant testified that the intent of…
The South Dakota Legislature continues to blur the lines defining who can vote where. Senate Bill 73, sponsored by Sen. Tim Begalka (R-4/Clear Lake), allows parents of open-enrolled students to vote in their chosen school's elections and to run for…
The Senate Local Government committee goes to work at 8 a.m. tomorrow to make voting easier for some people but not for others. The committee first tackles Senate Bill 33, Secretary of State Jason Gant's latest swipe at American Indian…