People Power Petition

Libertarian Party Endorses People Power Petition!

The Libertarian Party of South Dakota doesn’t think our People Power Initiative is some lawless out-of-state liberal plot. Far from it: the Libertarian Party is endorsing SD Voice’s People Power Petition as an expression of liberty and freedom from government red tape. The LPSD yesterday endorsed both my initiative to restore our initiative and referendum …

Argus Editorial: Legislature Uncomfortable with Citizens Participating in Democracy

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader agrees that we need to protect South Dakota’s “storied tradition” of direct democracy from Legislative attack: South Dakota’s storied tradition of citizen-led ballot measures is under fire, which we probably should have seen coming. The state’s initiative and referendum process expanded nearly 50 years ago to include constitutional amendments, allowing …

Proposed Meta-Initiative: Restoring the People’s Power of Initiative and Referendum

We’re working on a new initiative to reform the initiative and referendum process. The language is complicated: to undo all the complications the Legislature has used to ruin the process for grassroots South Dakotans, we have to strike and replace a lot of language in a several different statutes. To make sure you can see …