Poll Part 3: South Dakotans support ballot initiative process and oppose lawmaker interference
According to a recent statewide poll, a wide majority of South Dakota residents supports the citizen-led ballot-initiative process as a way to make laws or change the state constitution, and a significant majority said they don’t want the state Legislature to make the process more difficult.
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Some South Dakotans are bothered that even though voters overwhelmingly supported legalization of medical marijuana via a statewide ballot initiative, the governor and some lawmakers tried to delay legalization by a year. Photo: News Watch file
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Timeline to redraw legislative district boundaries in South Dakota will be squeezed by delayed census data
A state official warned the once-every-10 years committee about potential lawsuits that await the group if they seek to undercut minority representation. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
Ag land taxation is one of the issues the South Dakota Legislature has dealt with this session. Photo taken Feb. 7, 2019, Pierre, S.D. (Forum News Service/Agweek/Mikkel Pates)
PIERRE, S.D. South Dakota lawmakers began the weighty process of redrawing the state s legislative district, with growing concern that the state s GOP majority has one of the artificially lopsided advantages in the country.
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