This week on Matters of the State, we look at possible changes to voting and audits for South Dakota elections.

Voters in three small South Dakota counties on Tuesday rejected initiated measures to require hand-counting of ballots in future elections. The votes in Gregory, Haakon and Tripp counties were an ...

This number is an estimate and is based on several different factors, including information on the number of votes cast early as well as information provided to our vote reporters on Election Day ...

North and South Dakota Republican leaders have been on the national stage a lot throughout this election cycle.

South Dakota is one of the country’s most conservative states, but that precinct is in a legislative district represented by all Democrats. In the 2020 presidential election, Minnehaha County ...

South Dakota’s most populous county, Minnehaha, was in the spotlight this week after its top election official ordered the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Flood or no, Kristi Noem will fly. Throughout an ongoing disaster situation in her own backyard, South ...

South Dakota voters might decide on Nov. 5 whether to reject a new state law regulating carbon dioxide pipelines. The ballot ...

A recount of ballots for the Lawrence County Commission seats, a precinct woman, and the Meade County treasurer showed the ...

Stutsman County Auditor Jessica Alonge said she received three reported instances of an election judge failing to put her ...

Mr. Trump carried Van Buren County by 12 percentage points in 2020, but Ms. Whitmer came much closer in her re-election win ...

Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson were among a bipartisan group of five women state senators, dubbed the ‘sister ...