PIERRE, SD (KELO AM) Secretary of State Shantel Krebs supports a number of ideas for the 2017 State Legislature to improve the ballot initiative process in South Dakota.
Krebs believes that ballot measures that would amend the state constutition should require a 60 percent majority.
"I think that's a significant change and an important change because we are changing the constitution and right now a constitutional amendment can pass on a simple majority, meaning only 51 percent," Krebs tells KELO Radio's Greg Belfrage Show.
Another change she supports would require the cost of an intitiated measure be disclosed when voters are asked to sign petitions to get it on the ballot.
"So that you are going to know as a taxpayer how much money it would cost to implement a program or put a new law into place," says Krebs.
Krebs also wants caps on contributions to organizations supporting and opposing ballot measures. The caps would be on both out-of-state and in-state money. Krebs acknowledges that such caps, if approved, could face court action.