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Fight Continues to End Corruption in a State Plagued by Scandals
The South Dakota State Legislature fully repealed a major anti-corruption law earlier this year that voters approved in November 2016. But voters in the state may get a second chance at reform.Represe ...
25 Jul, 2017
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Free My Voice: Primary Elections Should Serve Voters, Not Parties
Like a lot of Missouri voters, I’m beyond angry at our recent divisive presidential election and scandal-plagued state legislature. It’s time to vent that anger at the real culprit: an election system ...
06 Jul, 2017
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44 States Stand Up to the White House? Not Quite...
The biggest headline this week on President Donald Trump's election integrity commission is that 44 states plus DC have partly or fully rejected the commission's request for a broad array of personal ...
06 Jul, 2017
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The California Travel Ban No One is Talking About
The "travel ban" is a clickbait phrase that's become a popular subject for the 24-hour news cycle. SCOTUS's decision to mostly reinstate President Trump's ban is certainly getting most of the att ...
26 Jun, 2017
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12 States Where Both Parties Are Suppressing the Right to Vote
At no time in history has the issue of “open v. closed primaries” been so prominent in the national discussion as it is today. This is, in large part, because Bernie Sanders made it a plank of his pre ...
10 Mar, 2017
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South Dakota Governor Signs Repeal of Anti-Corruption Act
Overturns voter backed ethics referendum despite massive constituent outcryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPierre, SD: Today, Governor Dennis Daugaard signed HB 1069, a repeal of a the South Dakota Government Ac ...
02 Feb, 2017
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Swamp Things: South Dakota Gets "F" in Ethics
Where does your state rank for integrity?South Dakota Senate is currently considering a repeal to the Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption Act (Measure 22, IM-22), approved by voter ...
26 Jan, 2017
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Swamp Bites Back: S.D. Lawmakers Declare "Emergency" to Overturn Anti-Corruption Act
South Dakota lawmakers have taken the first steps to overturn a voter-approved initiative called the South Dakota Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption Act (Measure 22, IM-22). Legislators pla ...
24 Jan, 2017
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Electoral Revolt Trumped: Hillary Loses More Electors Than Donald
If you listened to the mainstream media the past two weeks, you would have thought that there was the possibility of an electoral revolt of "faithless electors" who were going to ditch President-elect ...
19 Dec, 2016
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Debriefing Democracy: Nonpartisan Movements Score Major Victories in November
Keep up with the reform efforts building on the post-election momentum. Big change starts small, and these organizations have been hard at work to fix our broken system, little by little.With so much ...
12 Dec, 2016
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5 min read