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If you vote by mail, but die before Election Day, does your vote count? It depends on where you lived. Oregon counts ballots no matter what happens to the voter. So does Florida. But in South Dakota, if you die before the election, so does your vote.
While South Dakota Democrats are confident in this election cycle, the worst thing they can do as fall approaches is to take their candidates for granted, a party official said Thursday in Huron.
Terry DeVine and I worked together in Pierre for The Associated Press for little more than a year, but what an incredible year it was. In the spring of 1972, DeVine joined me. He was a Watertown kid, Marine Corps veteran and South Dakota State University graduate. He arrived just in time for the primary election. A former football player, he had a crushed-rock voice and a chest like a beer keg. ...
PIERRE (AP) — An eminent domain law passed by the South Dakota Legislature this year will take effect Tuesday as scheduled. Secretary of State Chris Nelson says a group that wanted to refer it to a public vote was about 1,600 signatures short of the number needed to put it on the November ballot.
OACOMA -- A smiling U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson was pushed into the South Dakota Democratic convention in a wheel chair Saturday and was met with a standing ovation from the luncheon crowd as he stood to ask his party's help in “one more campaign.”...
Delegates to the Democratic State Convention adopted a resolution that urges South Dakota voters to reject a November ballot measure that's billed as an attempt to create a clean and open government.
RAPID CITY (AP) — The South Dakota secretary of state’s office is hustling to finish checking petition signatures seeking to overturn a proposed law that would speed up the eminent domain process in railroad proceedings.
Brookings resident Karen Cardenas, co-sponsor of the statewide group Protect Private Property (P3), says efforts to refer recently passed South Dakota eminent domain legislation, Senate Bill 174, have not been successful.
(AP) — If you vote by mail, but die before Election Day, does your vote count? It depends on where you lived. Oregon counts ballots no matter what happens to the voter. So does Florida. But in South Dakota, if you die before the election, so does your vote.
