Absentee ballots challenged in Minnehaha County

Election integrity activist wants hundreds of ballots tossed on grounds voters don’t live in South Dakota

Hundreds of absentee ballots cast ahead of Tuesday’s South Dakota primary election are under review in Minnehaha County.

Precinct boards at two polling places in Sioux Falls have received formal challenges to absentee ballots submitted to the county election office and registered in their jurisdictions on grounds those voters are not South Dakota residents.

Election integrity activist Jessica Pollema filed the challenges at precinct 5-16, which has a polling place at the downtown Sioux Falls public library, and at precinct 4-16, which uses Word of Life Pentecostal Church as its polling place. Within those precinct are hundreds of registered voters with addresses associated with mail forwarding companies like Dakota Post and Your Best Address, which assist RVers and nomadic Americans establish residency in places like South Dakota.

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