LESS THAN 4 PERCENT OF BALLOTS ARE IN AS ELECTION DEADLINE APPROACHES

Fewer than 3 percent of Sioux Falls voters showed Tuesday’s election

From left: Elizabeth Duffy, Nan Kelly, Patricia (Trisha) Ringold and Thomas WernerMost voters in South Dakota’s largest school district commemorated their board of education’s last May election by not showing up. As a result, fewer than three thousand ballots cast in Tuesday’s Sioux Falls School Board election decided the fate of four aspiring education officials.

LESS THAN 4 PERCENT OF BALLOTS ARE IN AS ELECTION DEADLINE APPROACHES

May 13, 2025 3:50 a.m. Less than 4 percent of local ballots have come in as the deadline approaches for the 2025 Douglas County May Special Districts Election. County Clerk Daniel Loomis said 3.91 percent, or 5,607 ballots have been received. Loomis said that lags 3.20 percent behind the participation rate for the same point in the previous special districts election in 2023. Registered voters who have not yet received their ballot should contac…