Election on Tuesday

Voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, Nov. 5, to cast their votes in the 2024 General Election.
Locally there are races for South Dakota Legislature District 30 House of Representatives and Senate.
On the state level, voters will cast a vote on a variety of proposed constitutional amendments, initiated measures and referred laws, as well as for the Public Utilities Commission. Whether or not to retain a current Supreme Court Justice is also on the ballot.
At the national level, South Dakotans will decide who will hold the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as help choose who will be the next president of the United States.
In the race for a two-year term in the United States House of Representatives, Republican incumbent Dusty Johnson will face Democratic challenger Sheryl Johnson.
In the race for a two-year term in the South Dakota House of Representatives, District 30 will select two representatives from three candidates, including Republican incumbent Trish Ladner, Republican Tim Goodwin and Democrat Susan Scheirbeck.
District 30 voters will choose between a pair of candidates in the race for a two-year term in the South Dakota Senate. In this race, Republican Amber Hulse faces Democrat Bret Swanson.
In the race for a seat on the Public Utilities Commission, incumbent Kristie Fiegen faces challengers Forrest Wilson, a Democrat, and Gideon Oakes, a Libertarian.
Voters will also decide whether or not to retain Justice Scott P. Myren for the Fifth Supreme Court District on the South Dakota Supreme Court.
For constitutional amendments, Constitutional Amendment E will decide whether or not to update gender references for certain officeholders and person.
Amendment G will see voters decide whether or not to establish a right to an abortion in the state constitution, while Amendment F would see the state impose a work requirement on individuals eligible for expanded Medicaid benefits.
Finally, Constitutional Amendment H, if passed, would establish top-two primary elections.
There are two initiated measures on which to vote. Initiated Measure 28 would see taxes prohibited on anything sold for human consumption, also known as the “food tax.”
Initiated Measure 29 would see recreational cannabis legalized in the state.
Finally, voters will decide the fate of Referred Law 21, a referred act to provide new statutory requirements for regulating linear transmission facilities, to allow counties to impose a surcharge on certain pipeline companies, and to establish a landowner bill or rights.
Full text of these issues can be found online at the secretary of states office website at sdsos.gov. Both southdakotasearchlight.com and sdnewswatch.org have voter guides that explain the issues, and the Prevailer printed full text of each amendment, referred law and initiated measure with pros and cons in its Oct. 2 and Oct. 9 issues.
The election polls will be open from seven a.m. to seven p.m. on the day of the election. Election poll locations as well as instructions to voters can be found on the legal notices section of this issue of the Prevailer.