PIERRE, (KCCR) — A Pierre man attempting to become the youngest person to run for Governor in South Dakota will not get the chance to do so. Twenty year-old Robert Arnold announced his campaign for Governor as a Democrat last year in an announcement at the State Capitol last year. He was the first declared candidate the race. Arnold needed one-thousand 232 valid signatures as a Democrat to reach the ballot. A random sample of ballots conducted by the South Dakota Secretary of States Office shows 79-and-a-half percent of ballots sampled were valid. Arnold turned in just over 1400 signatures. The random sample put the number of valid signatures at one-thousand 119 or only 113 signatures short of what was needed according to state law. Democrats will have at least one challenger for Republicans this fall. Dan Ahlers turned in petitions April 2nd. Just over 93-percent of his signatures were deemed valid with one-thousand 818, over 600 signatures past the minimum threshold. Ahlers will take on the winner of the Republican June 2nd primary including Dusty Johnson, Larry Rhoden, Jon Hansen and Toby Doeden.
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