When the South Dakota Legislature changed the dates of local elections to coincide with statewide political primaries the stated intent was to increase voter turnout. It didn’t work. Maybe it did somewhere else, but not in the state’s largest city. It actually went down when comparing similar historical circumstances in Sioux Falls. What we're left with are confusing intertwined runoffs for mayor and the Republican nomination for governor that h…
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