SD Canvassing demands EVERYONE’s resignation, and election goofs promoting and said to be working for Baxter’s campaign

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The South Dakota Board of Elections was an interesting place to be today, according to media reports. Apparently, Jessica Pollema, one of the chief goofballs leaders of the group was demanding EVERYONE’s resignation today. Why? Because they didn’t get their way.

A leader of South Dakota Canvassing Group, a pro-Trump organization that’s been pushing for an overhaul of the state’s election system, on Thursday called for the resignations of all seven members on the South Dakota Board of Elections, including Secretary of State Monae Johnson, and said she wants the board abolished.

Jessica Pollema, of Tea, made the statements during the state board’s public-comment period. Her comments came a few minutes after the board had refused to go forward with a request from Rick Weible, of Elkton, for a declaratory ruling.

Weible wanted a decision on the legality of some laptops that an elections-equipment business, ES&S, had provided for use in the auditor offices of Lincoln and Pennington counties.

Read the entire article here.

South Dakota Canvassing is heavily promoting the candidacy of State Representative Heather Baxter who announced as a challenger for the office.  In fact, the chatter I’m hearing is that Pollema’s right hand election conspiracist Rick Weible is allegedly running the Baxter campaign.

From a look at it, Baxter has been provided the SDGOP contact list, as they immediately started e-mail blasting out to the members of County GOP organizations.

The e-mail did not indicate which volunteer sent this, as if there’s more than one. But…   I suppose the question then is, if Rick is involved, is the Baxter campaign going to have to use armed guards at campaign events since Weible believes his life is at risk for what he knows?

Just asking..

35 thoughts on “SD Canvassing demands EVERYONE’s resignation, and election goofs promoting and said to be working for Baxter’s campaign”

    1. anonymous at 6:37: YES! There is a way to deport RickWeible back to Minnesota!!
      His hero, Mike Lindell might run for governor there. If he does, Weibel might go back to help him campaign.
      When I saw the story (MSNBC picked it up,) that Lindell is considering a run for governor, I thought my prayers may be answered.

        1. Not so fast. Mike Lindell the My Pillow guy just lost a huge lawsuit and doubt he will have any money or credibility left to run for MN Governor. After this loss many Minnesotans would be happy to fill up a tank of gas, rent a truck, provide a driver and drop him off in South Dakota. He would unfortunately fit right in here. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/27/judge-rules-mypillow-guy-mike-lindell-defamed-smartmatic-with-false-claims-on-voting-machines

        2. The next question is which one of our South Dakota cities would like to have My Pillow set up HQ and MFG once Mike is dumped off here in South Dakota?

          1. we must all start contibuting to Lindell’s campaign in Minnesota, to save ourselves.
            Loons belong in Minnesota.

  2. I have watched the Minnehaha County Commission meetings many times that these crackpots have provided testimony during public input. My question is what qualifications does this Weeble Wobble and Pollema have to be giving election advice to anyone? I do not recall any of the commissionees ever asking thr question. One of them is Minnesota reject and the other sells candles as far as I know. We need a hard nosed, take no bull$i!! SOS that will tell them to kick rocks or sue. Take your pick

    1. There are several serious legal issues to consider. In particular, federal regulations seem to be in contention with South Dakota election implementation. With millions of dollars in software licensing going to computer and software firms, South Dakota’s election machines in large critical counties have failed to provide federally required audit trail as I understand it (I’ve reviewed this and would go under oath in good faith to testify as a professional with a Masters in MIS from the nation’s #1 USNWR program). After observing in Butte County, I learned through no fault of the team at the Auditor’s office in Butte (very good team that will work hard to do good) we’ve neglected to provide max security for vote tally equipment since equipment was not battery-powered in a SCIF with verified chain-of-custody and access to the equipment. If I’m being honest, even that is not enough to trust the machines for something so important. In my professional opinion, despite the switching costs and the pain of learning a new process, hand counting at the precincts provides the highest assurance of election integrity. We have a real problem that ham-strings the SOS, LRC, AG, LE, and others. It is so expensive that, through its massive opportunity costs, the lack of trust in elections, if criminals are able and more likely to get elected, it creates poverty that traumatizes communities and fuels poverty, addiction, and crime. SOS Johnson does not appear to have been equipped to address the issues in a timely manner with the staff and budget that she has. She needed WAAAAAAY more technology support. She failed to reach-out to and leverage key qualified resources that offered support (or at least her team did). The state’s IT outlay is heavy on the backbone and interchange, but the last mile is a security nightmare that remarkably inflates software change costs.

      Will someone from over “there” do any better?

      General mind share of rank-and-file South Dakotans: “I don’t care who wins as long as who actually won actually wins.”

      Whether Johnson wins or not, I hope we can create a stronger South Dakota together and prepare generations for the future through appropriate, conscious, responsible use of the technology tools of today.

      Also, the offer still stands to help her audit her IT staff and vendor capabilities.

      🙂

      Sincerely,

      John Dale, MS MIS (Eller)/Entrepreneurship
      Spearfish, SD

      1. Ol Ricky also declared himself a dental xray ‘expert’ during the BOE meeting, such an amazing human and self declared expert in everything (eye rollllllll)

  3. Ironic that Miss Monae will now be in the awkward position of defending herself from the lunatic right that put her in office in the first place.

    It’s really time to elect these offices during the Primary. We simply can’t so much power to guys like Weible who show up to the convention and elect the newest version of crazy.

    1. I always enjoy, I think, reading these kinds of hyperbolic statements. 😀

      “Lunatic”

      Occam’s Razor might suggest the people that supported her campaign promises feel under served and want to give someone else a chance. I can consider other interesting scenarios in contemplation, without conviction. There is a relatively short list of interesting (some stunning) possibilities.

      I’ve been following the threads over “there” at “that” organization and “they” do genuinely fear for their safety. With billions of dollars hanging on the balance of elections, the struggle could reasonably escalate, so I recommend nobody make light of such things as George Washington might behave.

      In my view .. we do not and should not need prisons for people who escalate to political violence over purse string squabbles.

      I’m not sure. Are we seeing a big giant struggle between corporate (and banking) privacy vs poor class ascendancy to middle/upper/white-collar class? Do the heavyweight banks have any real leverage beyond the threat of international war-making and violence? Uff da.

    2. you are right, all these statewide offices should be voted on in a primary instead of at a convention, AND the primaries need to be held earlier in the year. Only four states held their presidential primaries in June last year. This is ridiculous. By the time we have our primary, there’s nothing to vote for. Our ballots are almost blank, as many candidates withdraw from races.

  4. Im so confused….these right-wing people are crying election fraud when…..98.9% of South Dakota is controlled by the GOP.

    So does that mean they dont even trust the elections results of their own people?

    Like…honest questions here folks….because I’m very confused…again.

    1. Same here. I don’t see where fraud lies. I helped process absentee ballots in 2024. There is no fraud happening. They’re digging deep for treasure they won’t find.

      1. Anonymous seems to think he knows what’s going on? Just not confident enough to put an actual name on his posts!
        Anybody can say anything when you don’t have the courage to identify yourself!

        2. uhhhhh, what? I dont know if you know this Mick but its called…..freedom.

          Anyone can say anything even when posting their names or not. Your comment makes zero sense there bud.

          Do some research, read a book, learn about freedom 🙂

    2. These people know they have a slim chance of being elected if they run as a Democrat in SD! They change their voter registration to Republican to get elected!

      Obviously you really believe in yourself and your comments as you have to hide behind a made up name???

      1. So if every election is ‘rigged’ and ‘full of fraud’ then party wouldn’t matter. If there’s already chosen winner then people could run as whatever in SD. You saying someone has no chance as a Dem in SD proves there’s no fraud.

  5. The citizens of Minnesota would like to thank the state of South Dakota for providing a new home for Mr. Rick Weible where he is now enjoying his FreeDumb! Would you please keep him confined to the state so he no longer travels to other states like back in Minnesota spreading harmful conspiracies getting folks all riled up for nothing?

    We are doing our darndest to send more loons to South Dakota. Sorry! We will keep our prized waterfowl Loons here in Minnesota.

    Sincerely,

    Minnesota

  6. Ok, we’ve been hearing about this for the past decade. Where are the indictments, why aren’t people in jail if election laws are being broken? Before the internet and social media, these election deniers would have been shunned at their local coffee shops and run out of town. With social media, they have found other pockets of crazy out there in the American wasteland who are validating their mental illness. It’s sad and wild.

    1. Precisely. All of this lawbreaking but no indictments, no arrests, no court decisions in favor of the election deniers. Look it’s pretty simple. Rick Wiebel was at a McPherson county commission mtg a few years ago. The commission decided to do a 100% hand count, post election audit. Mr Wiebel said at that mtg that the county was setting “the gold standard”. And with that they hand counted. The counters included many of pollemas puppets. And the results(drumroll, for those of you who havnt heard this story already). The crazies were off by several votes in the precincts that they counted. They then refused to reconcile the difference throwing their arms up in delight that the machines were wrong. Good grief, the machines were right all 3 times because yes the county had to get a court order for the votes to be recounted and reconciled. That was a total of about 300 ballots with 1-3 races on each ballot. Let’s count 160 million votes with up to a dozen different races on them. Idiots. McPherson is the “gold standard” in showing that the current system works.

  7. These people have no clue how things work. It’s kinda fun watching them make @$$es of themselves.

  8. All I’m going to say is we had city elections here in Aberdeen & out in Ipswich.

    On election night, Brown County Commission used the ES&S machines to count the vote and the margin was only 1 vote.(Chad Nilson 124, Kurt Preszler 123, and Tiffany Langer(Incumbent) 79. Preszler requested a recount as he should.
    Recount was done. They used the same procedure as they did on election night(vote tabulation machine) and came out with the same result. Preszler conceded afterward.
    https://aberdeeninsider.com/recount-confirms-original-aberdeen-city-council-election-results/

    Ipswich used hand counting for their count on election night. Ward 1, Incumbent Kayla Hartwell 73, Challenger James Hoyle 73 & Ward 2 David Coisman 68 Dustin Pitz 67. Recounts were done using the same procedure came out with different results. Ward 1 Hartwell 73 Hoyle 72 Ward 2 Pitz 69 Coisman 67. Afterwards I’m certain they wish they had the tabulating machine to count those votes.
    https://aberdeeninsider.com/recounts-change-outcomes-of-two-city-council-races-in-ipswich/

    Bottom line SD Canvassing & Midwest Swamp Watch brought up complaints about machines in Lincoln, Davidson, Pennington, and I believe Minnehaha but coincidentally not in Brown County. If you haven’t compaints about these machines, should you file complaints against all counties that use them and not just pick and choose?

    1. Of course.. Follow the leader, not the experience. What are MS. B’s qualifications? Looks as if all her election bills and criticism are to set up Monae’s credibility. Not buying it.

  10. The most interesting comments were after America’s Auditor Leah asked the board to approve the new tabulating equipment because the ‘only way’ minnehaha can fix their tabulation times is to have more tabulators in some precincts (makes total sense). Polly pollema then posted an angry ‘hand count is faster’ comment…. Could americas auditor have fallen out of step with the canvASSers????

  11. Ironically, the only shot that Baxter has at winning the SOS election is if someone were to hack the voting computers.

  12. We have been groomed by the election deniers to greatly overthink this. Trump’s superhuman effort to cheat before, during and after the election of 2020 is documented circumstantially and directly by many sources. The result was durable enough to withstand everything he threw at it. We coddle and embrace all of this Trump-serving election denialism to our detriment. We ought not engage in it.

    1. oh BS. I don’t see a lot of daylight between the Trump supporters’ complaints that the 2020 election was crooked, the Clinton supporters’ complaints about misogyny, and the Harris supporters’ claims about racism. None of them want to admit their campaigns failed.

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