Secret ballot advocates stop petition drive, turn to state Legislature
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Rapid City Journal: Supporters of a ballot measure aimed at protecting the right to secret ballots in union elections have dropped a petition drive to put the proposal on the 2010 general election ballot. But they haven't given up. They're asking the state Legislature to put the issue on the ballot for them. Matt Konenkamp, a spokesman for Save Our Secret Ballots South Dakota, said during a news conference Friday in Rapid City that the organization changed direction after watching the complicated challenges faced by a group seeking to put an extension of the state smoking ban to a public vote.
Save Our Secret Ballots South Dakota didn't want to spend money defending its own petitions against a similar challenge, Konenkamp said. "The petition drive was going very well," he said. "We saw the complications the smoking-ban people ran into, and we didn't want to spend our resources fighting something like that." Senate Republican leader Dave Knudson of Sioux Falls joined Konenkamp at the news conference. Knudson said he and House Republican leader Bob Faehn of Watertown would co-sponsor a resolution in the 2010 session to put the measure on the ballot. Knudson said he expected broad support for the measure among legislators, including some Democrats. If the measure is approved, it would go on the 2010 ballot, localizing an issue that has simmered in Congress for years.
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