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It’s troublesome to overstate how dominant Republicans have change into in South Dakota. They have practically doubled Democrats on voter rolls; the celebration holds 90% of the Legislature, and it’s been over a decade since a Democrat has received a statewide race.
In the Mount Rushmore state’s high race this November, Gov. Kristi Noem has used the election cycle to place for a potential 2024 White House bid. But Democratic state lawmaker Jamie Smith is attempting to show that he can break his celebration’s decline by profitable the governor’s workplace, and gained some traction by criticizing her nationwide political ambitions. Noem received the 2018 election by three share factors — an in depth margin within the closely pink state. And Smith is hoping election evening is shut once more on Tuesday.
The pair of Republicans wanting to return to Congress, Sen. John Thune and Rep. Dusty Johnson, are anticipated to win by snug margins.
Thune, searching for his fourth time period, had a big fundraising benefit over Democratic challenger Brian Bengs, an Air Force veteran and college professor. Thune is the second-ranking Senate Republican and is seen as a potential decide to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell as soon as he steps down from management.
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Johnson’s path to a 3rd time period representing South Dakota’s lone House seat appeared assured with Democrats not fielding a candidate. Johnson confronted Libertarian Collin Duprel. Only Libertarian Collin Duprel challenged Johnson.
Voters will even determine whether or not to legalize leisure pot for adults, in addition to whether or not to increase eligibility for Medicaid. In different GOP-held states, each of these causes have discovered success by means of poll initiatives.
One of essentially the most fascinating takeaways from election evening might be a comparability of outcomes between Noem, who has allied herself intently with former President Donald Trump, and Thune, who drew Trump’s ire for dismissing his election fraud claims.
Here’s a take a look at what to count on on election evening:
Polls shut at 7 p.m. native time (8 p.m. ET). There are 17 counties within the western half of the state which can be within the Mountain Time Zone (polls shut at 9 p.m. ET). The AP is not going to name any races earlier than the later polls shut.
Slightly greater than half of South Dakota voters (51.5%) solid ballots by mail within the 2020 common election, double the quantity in 2018.
Things occur rapidly after the polls shut (and so they shut an hour aside on this state that shares each Central and Mountain time zones). Returns from the overall vote begin exhibiting quickly after 9 p.m. ET, with 20% of the overall often public in lower than an hour. Two years in the past, all returns have been reported by 2 a.m. ET – although it turned out that almost 10% of the vote wasn’t really counted till after Election Day. Most of that got here from Minnehaha County, house to Sioux Falls and the largest bloc of voters. A 2021 regulation now requires county auditors to kind and course of absentee ballots prior to the shut of polls on Election Day.
In a rural state that noticed solely 9 counties solid greater than 10,000 votes within the 2020 common election, the important thing strongholds aside from Sioux Falls embody Pennington County (house to Rapid City within the West River half of the state) together with Lincoln, Brown and Brookings counties. All 5 counties voted for Donald Trump over Joe Biden two years in the past in a state the place registered Democrats are practically outnumbered by conservative-leaning unaffiliated voters and each considerably path Republicans
AP will tabulate and declare winners in 50 contested races, together with statewide races for U.S. Senate, U.S House, governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, lands commissioner, public utilities commissioner, 40 state Senate and state House races, and two statewide poll points.
There is a compulsory recount regulation however just for tie votes. Candidates may search recounts in statewide races in the event that they trial by lower than 0.25% of the overall vote and there are additionally provisions permitting for potential recounts for poll questions and legislative races.
The AP doesn’t make projections and can solely declare a winner when it’s decided there is no such thing as a situation that will permit the trailing candidates to shut the hole.
Should a candidate declare victory or supply a concession earlier than the AP calls a race, we are going to cowl newsworthy developments in our reporting. In doing so, we are going to make clear that the AP has not declared a winner and clarify why.
The AP could name a statewide or U.S. House race during which the margin between the highest two candidates is 0.5% or much less, if we decide the lead is simply too giant for a recount to change the result.
The AP is not going to name down-ballot races on election evening if the margin between the highest two candidates is lower than 2% or if the main candidate is inside 2% of the 50% runoff threshold. AP will revisit these races later within the week to verify there aren’t sufficient excellent votes left to rely that might change the result.
Q: WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW?
A: If you want quirks in your politics, South Dakota is one in every of a handful of states the place state House districts could be represented by a couple of individual. For instance, voters might elect a Republican and a Democrat to signify them after selecting amongst a number of candidates with totally different affiliations. Multiple-winner districts, touted as a technique to assist guarantee minority illustration, at the moment are comparatively uncommon within the U.S.
Q: WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM THE PRIMARY?
A: The high Republicans — Noem, Thune and Johnson — swept apart major challengers with ease. Noem didn’t even point out her opponent within the common election, Democratic state Rep. Jamie Smith, after locking up the nomination in June.
Q: WHAT DO TURNOUT AND ADVANCE VOTE LOOK LIKE IN SOUTH DAKOTA?
A: In the final midterm election (2018), turnout was 65% as some 341,000 voters solid ballots and the 2 poll questions this 12 months might appeal to curiosity. As of Oct. 28, 2022, there have been practically 600,000 energetic registered voters and practically half of them (296,000) have been Republicans. There have been barely greater than 151,000 Democrats and a few 145,000 unaffiliated voters. About 45,000 mail ballots had been despatched and practically 35,000 of them had been returned, dramatically decrease than 2018 when 89,000 mail ballots have been counted.
Q: HOW LONG DOES COUNTING USUALLY TAKE?
A: Not lengthy in South Dakota. The state has a historical past of getting its ballots counted inside 4 or 5 hours of the ultimate ballot shut, though some outcomes should not last till the following day.
Q: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER TUESDAY?
A: There is a compulsory recount regulation however it applies solely within the very uncommon case of a tie vote. Recounts are doable in statewide races however provided that the margin is lower than 0.25% (one-fourth of 1%) of the overall votes solid. State legislative races and different measures have totally different parameters.
Here’s extra on the campaigns in South Dakota:
— South Dakota’s Noem, Thune repel GOP challenges from proper
— Governor debate: Noem for abortion ban, Smith desires modifications
— Noem: No particular legislative session for meals tax repeal
— Will South Dakota OK pot once more after 1st measure reversed?
“I’m completely running to be reelected and to serve 4 years as governor.” — Noem, when requested if she would commit to serving a full four-year time period as a substitute of running for president
“We want a pacesetter that’s centered on the state of South Dakota, that’s working for the individuals and that really cares about what’s greatest for the state.” — Smith, her opponent
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By BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The defending champion Golden State Warriors fell to 0-6 on the street, shedding 114-105 to Brandon Ingram and the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night time with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andrew Wiggins sidelined.
Ingram scored 26 factors in his return from a four-game absence due to a concussion and reserve Larry Nance Jr. scored 20 factors for the Pelicans, together with a number of fourth-quarter dunks that saved Golden State at bay. CJ McCollum scored 20 factors and Zion Williamson added 16 for New Orleans.
Jordan Poole had 20 factors and 9 assists for the Warriors. Kevon Looney was the one common starter in uniform for Golden State’s second sport in two nights on the finish of a winless five-game journey.
The Warriors are 3-7 total. Among Western Conference groups, solely Houston (1-8) has extra losses.
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Curry, Thompson, Green and Wiggins all had been scratched after taking part in the earlier night time in a loss at Orlando.
The Warriors will not be taking part in Thompson on back-to-back nights due to his anterior cruciate ligament and Achilles tendon accidents in 2019 and 2020. Green is beneath related limitations due to a again damage final season. Curry was being rested due to elbow soreness and Wiggins due to a sore left foot.
A beginning lineup that as an alternative included Poole and fellow guard Moses Moody, together with forwards Anthony Lamb and Jonathan Kuminga, made the sport aggressive into the fourth quarter.
Ty Jerome, who scored 18 factors, hit a 3 to pull the Warriors inside 99-96 earlier than the Pelicans steadily pulled away through the closing six minutes.
Trey Murphy III’s 3-pointer capped a 7-0 Pelicans spurt that started with Nance’s dunk and layup and made it 111-101 with two minutes to go. Ingram, who additionally had 5 rebounds, 5 assists and two blocks, obtained a standing ovation when he checked out of the sport within the closing minute.
New Orleans led by as many as 11 within the second quarter when Jose Alvarado intercepted Poole’s go and located Williamson for a breakaway, windmill dunk.
But the Warriors chipped away and trailed 50-49 on James Wiseman’s putback dunk.
Nance scored the ultimate 4 factors of the quarter on a finger roll and dunk, placing the Pelicans up 61-54 at halftime.
Warriors: Kuminga completed with 18 factors, whereas Lamb scored 16 and Moody had 14. … Went 12 of 32 from 3-point vary. … In addition to the 4 starters who sat, G/F Andre Iguodala (hip) and G Donte DiVincenzo (hamstring) remained inactive. Iguodala has but to play this season, whereas DiVicenzo hasn’t performed since Oct. 23.
Pelicans: Alvarado and Murphy every scored 10 factors and every hit three 3s to assist New Orleans go 12 of 29 from lengthy vary … Shot 50.6% total (41 of 81) and outrebounded Golden State 51-36.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr stated he appreciates that followers paid “good money” to see gamers on his staff who sat out with the objective of preserving their long-term well being.
“Ultimately the gamers’ well being is the No. 1 consider our staff’s success and even our followers’ satisfaction in the long term,” Kerr stated.
He added that whereas some absences are unpredictable, “it will be smart” for followers to research schedules of groups they need to see and handle expectations when these groups are taking part in on consecutive nights on the finish of a visit, because the Warriors had been.
“Especially once you get a staff with gamers who’ve previous accidents like we do, or guys who’re superior age-wise,” Kerr stated. “I apologize to any followers on the market who had been hoping to see these guys.”
Warriors: Host Sacramento on Monday.
Pelicans: Visit Atlanta on Saturday.
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN, AP Technology Writers
Twitter started widespread layoffs Friday as new proprietor Elon Musk overhauls the corporate, elevating grave issues about chaos enveloping the social media platform and its capacity to struggle disinformation simply days forward of the U.S. midterm elections.
The pace and size of the cuts additionally opened Musk and Twitter to lawsuits. At least one was filed alleging Twitter violated federal regulation by not offering fired workers the required discover.
The San Francisco-based firm informed staff by e mail Thursday that they’d study Friday if they’d been laid off. About half of the corporate’s employees of seven,500 was let go, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of security & integrity, confirmed in a tweet.
Musk tweeted late Friday that there was no alternative however to chop the jobs “when the corporate is dropping over $4M/day.” He didn’t present particulars on the each day losses on the firm and mentioned workers who misplaced their jobs have been supplied three months’ pay as a severance.
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No different social media platform comes near Twitter as a spot the place public businesses and different important service suppliers — election boards, police departments, utilities, faculties and news retailers — preserve individuals reliably knowledgeable. Many worry Musk’s layoffs will intestine it and render it lawless.
Roth mentioned the corporate’s front-line moderation employees was the group the least impacted by the job cuts.
He added that Twitter’s “efforts on election integrity — together with dangerous misinformation that may suppress the vote and combatting state-backed info operations — stay a prime precedence.”
Musk, in the meantime, tweeted that “Twitter’s sturdy dedication to content material moderation stays completely unchanged.”
But a Twitter worker who spoke with The Associated Press Friday mentioned it is going to be so much more durable to get that work executed beginning subsequent week after dropping so many colleagues.
“This will influence our capacity to offer help for elections, positively,” mentioned the worker who spoke on the situation of anonymity out of issues for job safety.
The worker mentioned there’s no “concrete sense of route” aside from what Musk says publicly on Twitter.
“I comply with his tweets they usually have an effect on how we prioritize our work,” mentioned the worker. “It’s a really wholesome indicator of what to prioritize.”
Several workers who tweeted about dropping their jobs mentioned Twitter eradicated their complete groups, together with one centered on human rights and world conflicts, one other checking Twitter’s algorithms for bias in how tweets get amplified, and an engineering crew devoted to creating the social platform extra accessible for individuals with disabilities.
Eddie Perez, a Twitter civic integrity crew supervisor who give up in September, mentioned he fears the layoffs so near the midterms may permit disinformation to “unfold like wildfire” in the course of the post-election vote-counting interval specifically.
“I’ve a tough time believing that it doesn’t have a cloth influence on their capacity to handle the quantity of disinformation on the market,” he mentioned, including that there merely might not be sufficient workers to beat it again.
President Joe Biden, at a marketing campaign occasion in Illinois Friday night time, mentioned: “Now what are all of us anxious about? Elon Musk, who goes out and buys an outfit that sends and spews lies all the world over. … How can we count on children to have the ability to perceive what’s at stake?”
Twitter’s workers have been anticipating layoffs since Musk took the helm. He fired prime executives, together with CEO Parag Agrawal, and eliminated the corporate’s board of administrators on his first day as proprietor.
As the emailed notices went out, many Twitter workers took to the platform to specific help for one another — typically merely tweeting blue coronary heart emojis to indicate its blue chicken brand — and salute emojis in replies to one another.
A Twitter supervisor mentioned many workers discovered they’d been laid off after they may now not log into the corporate’s methods. The supervisor mentioned the way in which the layoffs have been carried out confirmed a “lack of care and thoughtfulness.” The supervisor, who spoke to the AP on the situation of anonymity out of issues for job safety, mentioned managers weren’t given any discover about who can be getting laid off.
“For me as a supervisor, it’s been excruciating as a result of I needed to discover out about what my crew was going to seem like by tweets and thru texting and calling individuals,” the worker mentioned. “That’s a very arduous approach to care in your individuals. And managers at Twitter care so much about their individuals.”
A coalition of civil rights teams escalated their calls Friday for manufacturers to pause promoting buys on the platform. The layoffs are significantly harmful forward of the elections, the teams warned, and for transgender customers and different teams dealing with violence impressed by hate speech that proliferates online.
In a tweet Friday, Musk blamed activists for what he described as a “huge drop in income” since he took over Twitter late final week.
Insider Intelligence analyst Jasmine Enberg mentioned there may be “little Musk can say to appease advertisers when he’s maintaining the corporate in a continuing state of uncertainty and turmoil, and seems detached to Twitter workers and the regulation.”
“Musk wants advertisers greater than they want him,” she mentioned. “Pulling advertisements from Twitter is a fast and painless resolution for many manufacturers.”
A lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court docket in San Francisco on behalf of 1 worker who was laid off and three others who have been locked out of their work accounts. It alleges Twitter violated the regulation by not offering the required discover.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification statute requires employers with not less than 100 staff to reveal layoffs involving 500 or extra workers, no matter whether or not an organization is publicly traded or privately held, as Twitter is now.
The layoffs affected Twitter’s workplaces all over the world. In the United Kingdom, it could be required by regulation to offer workers discover, mentioned Emma Bartlett, a accomplice specializing in employment and partnership regulation at CM Murray LLP.
The pace of the layoffs may additionally open Musk and Twitter as much as discrimination claims if it seems, for example, that they disproportionally affected ladies, individuals of shade or older staff.
AP Business Writers Mae Anderson, Alexandra Olson and Ken Sweet in New York, James Pollard in Columbia, S.C., Frank Bajak in Boston and Danica Kirka in London contributed to this story.
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will get a $145,000 settlement following a pair of lawsuits filed after an FBI agent posed as a reporter for The Associated Press and created a faux story.
The long-running Freedom of Information Act instances led to appeals court docket selections that may assist bolster entry to public information, stated Adam Marshall, an lawyer for the group. The instances additionally make clear FBI brokers posing as members of the media, a tactic that free press advocates say undermines media credibility and blurs strains between legislation enforcement and the press.
The company did not comply with its personal guidelines over such undercover operations when an agent posed as an AP reporter and despatched a link to a faux story in an investigation in Washington state in 2007, in keeping with paperwork uncovered in the lawsuit filed together with The Associated Press.
Then-FBI Director James Comey known as the approach “correct and acceptable” below FBI pointers on the time, although he stated it might require higher-level approvals when the incident got here to gentle seven years later, in 2014. No precise story was revealed and it led to an arrest, he maintained.
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The agent posing as an AP reporter despatched a link to the faux article to a 15-year-old suspected of creating bomb threats at a highschool. When the teenager clicked the link, a monitoring instrument revealed his pc’s location and helped brokers affirm his id.
The FBI declined to remark Friday.
Kathleen Carroll, then government editor of the AP, stated in 2014 that the FBI’s “unacceptable techniques undermine AP and the important distinction between the federal government and the press.” A letter signed by two dozen news organizations known as the revelations “inexcusable” and the Reporter’s Committee particularly known as out using the AP’s title as “cowl for delivery of digital surveillance software program.”
Lauren Easton, an Associated Press spokeswoman, declined extra remark Friday.
The lawsuits had been filed as a part of an effort to get information about FBI news-media impersonations, and finally resulted in vital court docket selections about how far businesses should go in looking for requested paperwork and the requirements they need to meet in order to withhold paperwork, Marshall stated. The settlement will cowl lawyer’s charges and prices.
“This has proven that there are important, regarding and ongoing points with respect to federal legislation enforcement impersonation of the press in the United States,” Marshall stated. The instances have additionally “proven that the Reporters Committee and The Associated Press had been dedicated to discovering out as a lot as we might about what occurred right here for the general public to know.”
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