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Groton Daily Independent
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 102 ~ 5 of 63
Secretary of State Receives First
Ballot Question Petitions for Review
Pierre, SD – Today, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs re- ceived petitions for An initiated amendment to the South Dakota Constitution changing campaign nance and lob- bying laws, creating a government accountability board, and changing certain initiative and referendum provisions.
Petitions will be reviewed by the Secretary of State’s of- ce in the order in which they were received.
If validated and certi ed the constitutional amendment will appear on the November 2018 general election ballot as a ballot question.
A Constitutional Amendment requires 27,741 valid sig- natures in order to be placed on the ballot. The Secretary of State’s of ce will conduct a random sampling of the petition signatures to determine the validity. The process is outlined in SDCL 2-1-16 and 2-1-17
This is the rst 2018 Ballot Question to be received by the Secretary of State’s of ce for petition review.
There are a total of 20 potential ballot measures that could be placed on the ballot for 2018.
Ballot Question Information
Deadline for submitting initiated constitutional amend- ment petition – 5:00pm CT November 6, 2017
Deadline for submitting initiated measure petition – 5:00pm CT November 6, 2017
Random Sampling process for statewide ballot measures:
2-1-16. Signatures to be veri ed by random sampling--Methodology. The secretary of state shall verify the signatures pursuant to § 2-1-15 by random sampling. The random sample of signatures to be veri ed shall be drawn so that each signature received by the secretary of state is given an equal opportunity to be included in the sample. The secretary of state shall calculate the number of valid signatures by multi- plying the total number of signatures received by the percentage of successfully veri ed signatures from the random sample. The secretary of state shall promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, establishing the methodology for conducting the random sample. The random sampling shall be an examination of the signatures received consisting of a number of signatures that is statistically correlative to not less than ninety- ve percent level of con dence with a margin of error equal to not more than three and sixty-two one-hundredths percent.
2-1-17. Certi cation of results of random sampling--Noti cation of petition sponsors. If the random sample indicates that a suf cient number of quali ed electors have signed the petition, the secretary of state shall certify that the petition has been signed by the required number of quali ed electors and shall place the proposed measure or amendment on the next general election ballot. If the random sample indicates that an insuf cient number of quali ed electors have signed the petition, the secretary of state shall certify that the petition has not been signed by the required number of quali ed electors and may not place the proposed measure or amendment on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state shall, within ve days of certifying, notify the petition sponsors by certi ed mail of the secretary of state’s action pursuant to this section.
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