Voters in South Dakota may have an opportunity to change the way elections are conducted in their state. TakeItBack.org submitted over 40,000 signatures to South Dakota’s Secretary of State Monday in favor of a ballot initiative that would implement nonpartisan, top-two primaries in the state similar to the election model used for state legislative races in Nebraska.
The initiative makes all elections non-partisan, except for President. No party labels would appear on the ballot, except for President.
TakeItBack.org is a nonpartisan organization founded by Drey Samuelson, Chief of Staff to former U.S. Senator Tim Johnson and Richard Weiland, the 2014 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. The group is dedicated to using “the initiative and referendum process to advance needed political and policy reforms to take our government back from the stranglehold of wealthy special interests,” and aims to recreate a government by the people and for the people.
Because the measure is backed by two prominent Democrats, opponents of the measure are already saying that this is just a Democratic plan to remove party labels from the ballot because otherwise Democrats can’t win important office in South Dakota.
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