Senate Bill 65 revises the rules for road district elections. Road districts are special governmental subdivisions authorized by South Dakota law to levy taxes and spend money to build and maintain roads outside of established municipalities. Road districts are formed…
Posts tagged as “voting rights”
Just when it looks like Jason Gant might be getting ready for a year of lame-duck decency, the Secretary of State he stinks up the legislative hopper with this side-attack on Indian voting rights. Bob Mercer notices that Secretary Gant…
Four Directions continues to fight for American Indian voting rights in South Dakota. And yesterday, at a task force meeting in Pierre, instead of the obstruction and obfuscation dished out by Secretary of State Jason Gant last summer, Four Directions…
Secretary of State Jason Gant has gotten three full days of attention in South Dakota's largest newspaper for putting into effect a first-in-the-nation technological advancement that will help overseas military personnel more easily register to vote and secure absentee ballots.…
Not paying lawyer bills for Republicans who fail to carry out promises: the plaintiffs in Brooks v. Gant! I'm surprised and sorry I missed this one, but an eager reader notes that last month, Judge Karen Schreier rejected the effort…
Secretary of State Jason Gant doesn't think he can use Help America Vote Act money to give South Dakotans in Fort Thompson, Wanblee, and Eagle Butte more places to vote. But he's fine with spending HAVA money to give Aberdonians…
Here's a concrete statement straight from Shantel Krebs showing she would work as hard as Secretary of State to suppress the Indian vote as current Disenfranchiser-in-Chief Jason Gant: One subject that’s been disputed recently is the request by some Native…