Tune in this evening at 7:30 p.m. Central for a special South Dakota News Watch Live (Zoom link) on "safeguarding South Dakota's elections."
News Watch's Bart Pfankuch will interview Secretary of State Steve Barnett, Minnehaha County Auditor Bob Litz and Amy Scott-Stoltz, president of the League of Women Voters of South Dakota. Plus, Bart will take questions from the audience.
The 2020 general election will bring a variety of challenges for elections officials. In addition to processing far more absentee ballots, auditors who are the ground-level, local operators of elections in South Dakota must prepare safe environments for in-person voting amid a deadly pandemic. This evening's event will focus on what South Dakota's election officials are doing to ensure the integrity of this fall's election.
You can watch the approximately one-hour virtual event here or on South Dakota News Watch's Facebook page.
