South Dakota Save Our Secret Ballot (2010)
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Save Our Secret Ballot was a proposed initiative that suggested protecting the right to secret ballots in federal, state, and union representation elections. Its supporters hoped to qualify it for the November 2010 ballot in South Dakota, however in September 2009 supporters announced they were dropping their petition efforts.
Ballot summary
The proposal reads:
“The right of individuals to vote by secret ballot is fundamental. Where state or federal law requires or permits elections or designations or authorizations of employee representation, the right of individuals to vote by secret ballot shall be guaranteed.”[1]
Similar measures
The same initiative has been filed in Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, Nevada, and Utah. Currently, legislation, also known as the Employee Free Choice Act, is pending before the United States Congress that would remove that requirement from federal law.
Petition dropped
In September 2009 initiative supporters dropped their petition efforts and instead decided to pursue a different route to place the measure on the ballot. They are going to ask the the state legislature to put it on the ballot for them. Matt Konenkamp, a spokesman for Save Our Secret Ballots South Dakota, said,"The petition drive was going very well. We saw the complications the smoking-ban people ran into, and we didn't want to spend our resources fighting something like that."[2]
South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Dave Knudson of Sioux Falls, who seeks the GOP nomination for governor, says he will introduce legislation to send to the state's voters a constitutional amendment to protect the secret ballot. [3]
See also
- South Dakota secret ballot measure petition dropped
- South Dakota 2010 ballot measures
- Arizona Save Our Secret Ballot (2010)
External links
References
- ↑ Save Our Secret Ballot,"South Dakota," retrieved November 18, 2009
- ↑ Rapid City Journal,"Secret ballot advocates stop petition drive, turn to state Legislature," September 26, 2009
- ↑ Associated Press,"2010 legislators to see secret ballot amendment", September 24, 2009
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