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Poll Part 3: South Dakotans support ballot initiative process and oppose lawmaker interference


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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By Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch |
2:45 pm, May 27, 2021
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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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Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy


Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy
Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti
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Boxes of ballot initiative petitions were delivered to the Missouri secretary of state’s office in Jefferson City in May 2020. Republican lawmakers have since refused to carry out the Medicaid expansion that voters favored in November.
In 2008, deep-blue California banned same-sex marriage. In 2018, steadfastly conservative Arkansas and Missouri increased their minimum wage. And last year, Republican-controlled Arizona and Montana legalized recreational marijuana.
These moves were all the product of ballot initiatives, a century-old fixture of American democracy that allows voters to bypass their legislatures to enact new laws, often with results that defy the desires of the state’s elected representatives. While they have been a tool of both parties in the past, Democrats have been particularly succe ....

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