South Dakota lawmakers will be in Pierre on Monday for a one day special session that will approve new election districts. The action follows the changes mandated by the 2010 census. Senate Majority Leader, Russ Olson of Wentworth, a co-chair of the Redistricting Committee says they took their time to come up with the new maps…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/10/Russ-Olson-1020a.mp3|titles=Russ Olson 1020a]Olson says they held hearings around the state, and then worked on the maps piece by piece to come up with their recommendation…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/10/Russ-Olson-1020b.mp3|titles=Russ Olson 1020b]Representative Frank Kloucek (klow-check) of Scotland has urged the legislature to look at an alternative that would not split Bon Homme County. Olson says they will take time Monday to listen to those with concerns…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/10/Russ-Olson-1020c.mp3|titles=Russ Olson 1020c]The new election districts become effective on January first.
IF the Rausch-Olsen plan is adopted this is how area counties would be split into districts…
- Beadle and Kingsbury
- Jerauld joins Aurora and Davison
- Hand and Southwestern Spink join with Campbell, Walworth, Potter, McPherson, Edmunds, and Faulk
- The remaineder of Spink and all of Clark go with Hamilin and portions of Brown and Day
- Sanborn and Miner are with counties along Highway 34 to the Minnesota boarder, Lake and Moody
- Hyde goes with Sully, Hughes and Stanley Countes
- Buffalo and Brule join Lymen, Jones, Mellette and Todd
This is a map of the Rausch-Olsen plan: LRE-StatewideOptionA