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The Charles Mix New Era
Wagner, Charles Mix County, South Dakota
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In Mitchell, a movement is underway to increase the voter signature requirement for referendum petitions from 5% to 25%, aiming to make it harder to challenge state laws passed by the legislature. The proposal will be presented at the upcoming legislative session.
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Mitchell—A movement has recently been started in this section of the state to raise the percentage of voters who are required to sign a petition requesting the referring of a state law back to the people. Since the recent election there has been strong feeling aroused that it should be more difficult to secure the referending of laws which have been passed by the legislature. Under the present law 5 per cent of the voters only is necessary to have a law turned back. It is the intention to present a measure to the legislature at the coming session requiring that all petitions for referring laws must be backed up with the signatures of 25 per cent of the voters of the state. This figure may be too high, and the legislature may cut it down to some extent, but strong effort will be made by the legislators from this section to have the 5 per cent raised to a much higher figure.
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Mitchell
Event Date
Recently, Since The Recent Election
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A movement has been started to raise the percentage of voters required to sign a petition for referring a state law back to the people from 5% to 25%. Strong feeling aroused post-election to make it more difficult to secure referendums. Intention to present measure to legislature at coming session, with effort to raise it to a much higher figure.