PIERRE, (KCCR) — All the votes are now in for races across South Dakota in Tuesday’s general election. One of the final races to see check marks on the South Dakota Secretary of State’s website was for District 27 in the legislature. Anthony Kathol won the D-27 Senate with 43-percent of the vote over Celestine Stadnick and Peri Pourier. In the House race, incumbent Liz May received the most vote; 34-percent. Late Tuesday night Joe Flood held the number two seat, however once the in final precinct was reported Evangeline Poor Bear grabbed the second seat with 22-percent of the vote or 16-hundred votes. In Ziebach County Lee Brooks, Shane Farlee and Tucker Stocklin won at-large seats on the Ziebach County Commission. As for the four Constitutional Amendments on the ballot, voters rejected Amendment I which would have repealed expanded Medicaid if federal funding fell below 90-percent. Also losing was an amendment to move approval of a Constitutional amendment to 60-percent. Constitutional amendments requiring proof of U-S citizenship to vote and establishing a trust for unclaimed property passed by 60-40 margins.
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