County officials in South Dakota cannot hold up a federal judge's order instructing them to use new election rules that don't disadvantage Native voters, the judge said Wednesday, chiding the county for slow-walking a redistricting plan and urging it to prepare revisions by next week.
County officials in South Dakota cannot hold up a federal judge's order instructing them to use new election rules that don't disadvantage Native voters, the judge said Wednesday, chiding the county for slow-walking a redistricting plan and urging it to prepare revisions by next week.
News Release Lower Brule Sioux Tribe The U.S. District Court in South Dakota ruled on the urgency of protecting Native voters right to fair elections in
A federal judge has temporarily ordered a central South Dakota county to work with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe to implement by November a redistricting plan to allow for the