#amendment t

A brief final look at the 6 failed ballot questions

Yesterday I posted  a look at the four ballot questions which the voters of South Dakota approved. In this post I will look at the six ballot questions that didn’t make it. Hopefully this will be the last time I have to blog about any of these (except maybe a clean attempt at the legislation which was destroyed and became RL 19). These numbers are based upon the unofficial results. Next week the…

SD Dist 30 Sate House Gen Election: Frye-Mueller, Goodwin, Winter, and Arseneault

SD Legislative District 30. Screenshot from LRC website on 5/25/26. South Dakota legislative District 30 has  a general election for State Representative. District 30 is the South West corner of South Dakota. Towns in this district include Box Elder, Buffalo Gap, Custer, Edgemont, Fairburn, Hermosa, Hill City, Hot Springs, Keystone, New Underwood, Oelrichs, Pringle, Rapid City, Wall, and Wasta.…

SD Dist 10 State Senate Gen Election: J Haggar and Powers

SD Legislative District 10 South Dakota legislative District 10 has  a general election for State Senate. District 10 includes parts of northeast Sioux Falls and then protrudes north and north-east of Sioux Falls. It includes Brandon, the Meadow View Addition, and Renner Corner. The incumbent Republican Sen Jenna Haggar is seeking reelection to her second term as a State Senator. Challenging her…

SD Dist 3 State House Gen Election: Dennert, Kaiser, Briscoe, and Bootz

SD Legislative District 3 South Dakota legislative District 3 has  a general election for State Representative. District 3 encompasses most of Aberdeen. But it also goes out to encompass Bath and Prairiewood. One of the Republican incumbents, Rep Al Novstrup, is seeking the State Senate seat being vacated by his son Sen David Novstrup. On the Republican side there was a three-way primary between…

A look at Constitutional Amendment T, legislative redistricting

The next proposed South Dakota constitutional amendment to look at for the ballot questions in the 2016 South Dakota election is Constitutional Amendment T. Amendment T would change the state constitution to have state legislative redistricting done by a commission outside of the legislature. Currently the legislature sets the legislative districts. This post will look at some of the basics of…

Anti-gerrymandering petition becomes Constitutional Amendment T on the SD 2016 Ballot

On Christmas Eve South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced another petition had been certified: https://twitter.com/SOSKrebs/status/680112070843482112 Therefore the anti-gerrymandering petition circulated by Farmers Union will make it to the 2016 South Dakota ballot as Constitutional Amendment T. Like other petitions that have been circulated earlier this fall, I really haven’t…