Today the Lawrence County commission rejected a petition for an initiated measure at the county level that they viewed as potentially illegal under the law, and overreaching in that it attempted to supersede federal law; something they didn’t believe they had the authority to do.
Lawrence County Commissioner Eric Jennings moved to reject the petition on the grounds that, “this petition violates state and federal law and the proposed ordinances must be within the power of the county commission to adopt and these are not.”
“While there has been a lot of discussion today about voting tabulation machines, hand counting, and complying with state and federal voting laws, the issue that we’re dealing with is if the petition submitted violates federal or state law,” Jennings said.
And that appears to be a potentially fatal flaw in many of the initiated county level measures being brought by election truthers and ballot counting machine conspiracists.
They are not going to get counties to move against federal laws, such as (HAVA) the Help America Vote Act and they are really not going to be successful if somebody sues under the (ADA) Americans with Disabilities Act.
Glad to see some commissioners with a backbone stand against the lunatics trying to burn down the GOP.
Burn down? Baby, this IS the GOP!
They are not republicans. They are out of state people that moved to South Dakota. They are a small group of people with enormous mouths and nothing else. I do feel sorry for them – well I don’t. Weeble is their leader.
Thanks Kristi Noem!
Last I checked, a lot of the crazies have been here for decades. Haugaard, Taffy, Engelhart, Frye-Mueller, and many others aren’t out of staters who came here to avoid the COVID shutdowns everywhere else.
It accelerated due to Kristi marketing directly to them to move to South Dakota to get their Freedumb!
Visit with my realtor friends and these crazies are buying houses sight unseen from out of state. These buyers ramble on about all kinds of conspiracies and the realtors politely try to keep them focused on completing the transaction so they can get the hell out of there and move on to the next buyer.
Very true. They have tenure.
I’m absolutely at my wit’s end with the destructive forces attempting to undermine the integrity of the Republican Party here in Lawrence County and in South Dakota generally. These crap-ass individuals, cloaked in a phony veil of moral superiority, claim to act in South Dakota’s and America’s best interest, branding themselves as upstanding ‘Christians’ on a righteous quest. This couldn’t be further from the truth. They are, in essence, no more than utter charlatans—masters of deceit and manipulation, twisting facts and provably bearing false witness against and illegally attacking others to serve their twisted agenda. Their trail of actions betray the very principles they profess to uphold, rendering them false prophets driven by a deeply ingrained malice and envy. I unequivocally reject (and encourage savvy others to harshly reject) their hypocritical posturing and denounce their efforts to sow division… casting an undeserved shadow over the genuine work of those truly dedicated to the South Dakota’s and our nation’s welfare.
hey, see if trump can spare a family member to come in and get the place running right.
But this is part of the new and biggest conservative movement in South Dakota history by the mastermind in Aberdeen!
LOL!!
All this chaos grew from Trump’s claim of “rigged election” and “voter fraud”. When he (again) looses the November 2024 election by a few hundred-thousand votes, he will call up his Proud Boys and QAnon and Oath Keepers and yes even his faithful Governors from all the red states in order to circumvent the swearing in of President Biden for a second term.
Oh look, a floaters from the dakota septic tank.
Actually I think it started with Covid. The virus causes neurological damage.
I can see someone having questions about voting where there isn’t a paper trail. I think the fears may be overblown, but I do understand the concerns. I haven’t seen any evidence that passes even basic scrutiny that there was any shenanigans that could have impacted any elections, but having a paper trail means you CAN double/triple check if needed.
But that doesn’t apply HERE.
South Dakota seems to do it correctly – non-internet connected tabulation machines that are functionally un-hackable with paper backups.
These people seem to have some fantasy that somehow manual counts will be somehow better or more secure. Until they can show a case – ANY case – in South Dakota where we’ve had an issue with how WE do things, they are doing nothing but wasting everyone’s time and the state’s money.
Amen.
Voters have the right to have a vote counting system that they can all understand and trust. That hinges on having their neighbors being election workers that hand out the ballots, collect the ballots. and count the ballots. The insult to election workers is to tell them you can not count the ballots and tell them “we have a machine that is more legitimate then you”. One counting machine is more susceptible to corruption then the dozens of citizen ballot counters it replaces.
Other than the fact that every time a tabulation machine has been put up against a hand count, the tabulation machine was more accurate. And it seems like everyone is completely forgetting that every county now has to do an audit of the tabulation machines. If there’s an issue, we will certainly find out. But keep spreading your gospel.
You’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. Quit lying (if you’re able to) about how “hackable” voting machines are.
They’re not opinions. Do the research. Every study that has been done has found tabulation machines to be more accurate than a hand count. There is also zero evidence a single tabulation machine was hacked during the 2020 election other than uncle Bob “saying so.” I know it can be scary, but you can take the tinfoil hat off.
Weibel was bragging last summer about how he printed up a thousand or so counterfeit ballots, took them over to Madison and the voting machine counted them.
With the loudest advocate for paper ballots bragging about how easy it is to make counterfeit ballots, why do these people keep insisting that paper ballots are the way to go?
It is not a matter if computers can count faster or more accurate it is a matter about which system is the least corruptible. It is easier to corrupt one vote counting machine then the 5 to 10 voting centers with multiple election workers that are your neighbors and with poll watchers that you also know. People have the right to an election process that they trust. Ask any county auditor if they can read the computer code in any of the tabulators etc.
Prove that its easier to corrupt a voting machine that is not connected to the internet and is tested for accuracy multiple times before and after an election. Go on do it.