Democracy Rally

Citizen Democracy is under attack in the Coyote state as the South Dakota Legislature continues to undermine the people’s right to gather signatures and pass public policy at the ballot box.

South Dakota was the first state in the nation to include this right in its state’s constitution, consistent with South Dakota’s official state motto – “UNDER GOD THE PEOPLE RULE.” Recent efforts by a heavily Republican dominated state legislature have turned our state motto into a joke by repeatedly ignoring the will of the voters.

When the people of South Dakota voted to increase the minimum wage in 2014 for all minimum wage earners, the State Legislature took it upon themselves to omit young adults causing outrage among the voters who referred that action, and by a vote of over 70%, said NO to the Legislature and YES to an additional $1.25 with cost-of-living adjustment.

The people of South Dakota,…