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College students have options to vote in South Dakota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota Information Now) – Already absentee ballots and early votes are being submitted in South Dakota, and a few of these are from school college students.
College students which are already South Dakota residents can register to vote both within the county their faculty is at, or at their house deal with. College students from out of state have an choice to vote in South Dakota as nicely.
“They will both absentee vote, in the event that they need to keep registered of their house state the place they stay with their mother and father after the varsity 12 months. In the event that they do need to register to vote right here in South Dakota, in the present day can be the deadline.” South Dakota Secretary of State Steve Barnett stated.
There’s been a push to get college students to register to vote for years. College of South Dakota Political Science Professor Emeritus Michael Card stated usually occasions, as soon as folks register and vote as soon as, they have a tendency to vote extra usually sooner or later.
“Voting is essentially the most seen side of civil engagement. That’s getting folks to speak concerning the points which are vital to them, and speaking these points to resolution makers.” Card stated.
That’s essential, as he stated increasingly more youthful voters have gotten disengaged with the voting course of.
“A part of what we’ve seen in South Dakota in comparison with 2018, is a 40 p.c drop in youth registrations. In order that’s in all probability an actual problem, and it could be as a result of the youth are turned off from politics.” Card stated.
Barnett stated it’s been an enormous purpose of their workplace to get extra school college students registered to vote by working with faculties to arrange voter registration days. He stated any effort to get extra folks out to vote is a profit to the state as an entire.
“That’s an enormous block of parents that it’s possibly not on the entrance of their thoughts. So if we will form of have a presence on campus, particularly on the scholar union chow-line, that may get their consideration.” Barnett stated.
October 24 is the deadline to register to vote in South Dakota. The cutoff that county auditors can take registration functions is 5:00 p.m. For many who have registered, there’s nonetheless time to vote early or request an absentee poll. These ballots will be requested up till the day earlier than the election. Extra details about how school college students can register to vote in South Dakota will be discovered right here.
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State Sen. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, announced on the social media platform X on Sunday that he had left the hospital, about a week after breaking bones and suffering other injuries in a single-car crash in South Dakota.
Kern, who was visiting family, was riding with a friend through a snowstorm when the car hit ice and the driver lost control.
He posted that he was out of the critical stage and making his way back to Phoenix, but he couldn’t fly due to a collapsed lung.
Kern is finishing his first state Senate term after three terms in the state House. This fall, he opted to run for a congressional seat rather than seek a return to the state Capitol but lost the GOP race for Congressional District 8 to Abe Hamadeh.
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Sunday will be warm and breezy
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Partly cloudy skies are expected. A stray shower or two will be possible, but chances aren’t great. Highs will be in the 40s and 50s for much of KOTA Territory.
Wind gusts could range from 30 to 40 mph at times – especially across western South Dakota.
We’ll remain mild all Christmas week with highs in the 40s to near 50°. Mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies will be likely all week long. It could get a little breezy on Christmas Day, but nothing too crazy.
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