Chet Brokaw, writing for the AP, has two articles about the upcoming primary elections about touch-screen voting machines and the abortion debate's effects on the state legislature races:
One letter to the editor in a recent edition of the Rapid City Journal endorsed state Sen. Stan Adelstein for re-election because he has an "excellent character." Another backed his challenger in the Republic primary, Elli Schwiesow, because Adelstein is "unfit for office" after voting against a ban on abortions.
Welcome to South Dakota's political battlefield after the Legislature earlier this year passed the nation's most restrictive abortion measure, a law that would ban nearly all abortions in the state.
Don Dahlin, a political science professor at the University of South Dakota, said the abortion issue has not had much impact in the governor's race so far, but it seems to be playing a role in legislative races ahead of Tuesday's primary election.
Kevin Woster has an article in today's Rapid City Journal about an advertising controversy in the Adelstein / Schwiesow primary battle:
Rapid City businessman Bob Fischer and his wife, Rita, have stopped paying for newspaper advertisements for state Republican Senate candidate Elli Schwiesow after her opponent, incumbent Sen. Stan Adelstein, raised questions about their legality.
Adelstein contended that the Fischers had exceeded the state campaign donation limit by running four separate advertisements for several days in the Journal. The donation limit in a legislative race is $250 per person.
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