WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakotans will vote in several high-profile contests in the Nov. 5 general election, including the race for president and a proposed state constitutional amendment that would strike down a law banning abortion . Other contests on the ballot include races for the U.
S. House, state Legislature and additional statewide ballot questions . Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump are competing for the state's three electoral votes.
Two independent or third-party candidates are also on the ballot, including Robert F. Kennedy, who dropped out of the race in August and endorsed Trump. South Dakota is one of 10 states that will put ballot measures related to abortion access before the voters.
It's one of 14 states that banned abortion at every stage of pregnancy after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade . The ballot measure would bar any restrictions on abortion in the first trimester, allow limited regulation in the second, and would permit abortions to be banned in the third trimester, except when “necessary to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman.
” A lawsuit by an anti-abortion group to invalidate the ballot measure won't be decided until after the election . South Dakota is reliably Republican in presidential elections. The only Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state in the last 84 years was President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
Trump won 62% of the vote in 2020 versus just 36% fo.
