HB 1198 and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Published on February 11, 2024

Commentary On Feb. 5, the South Dakota House State Affairs Committee deliberated on HB 1198. The main purpose of this bill is to change the selection process for nominating political party candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of state. For decades in South Dakota, the party nominating process for these and other statewide offices, less governors, has involved voting by delegates to political party conventions. The delegates to these conventions are party officials and activists, including county chairman, vice chairmen, state committeemen and women, three at-large elected Republicans per county, and precinct committee men and women—in short, they’re arguably the best informed about candidates in their respective political parties, particularly with respect to being able to gauge “ideological purity” (adherence to party platform planks, etc.)....

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