VIEWPOINT | South Dakota doesn’t have too many ballot issues in November

Guest column by Joe Kirby

As we approach the November election, voters will start to focus on the ballot issues they are being asked to decide. There are seven this year, which is about normal.

Two of the seven are constitutional amendments submitted to voters by the legislature. They must get our permission when they want to change the Constitution. The other issues are on the ballot because of citizen-led petition drives.

Direct democracy allows voters to decide a specific issue. We have over a century of direct democracy history in South Dakota; we like voting on ballot issues. But the political class in our state doesn’t like it.

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