Anti-Abortion Activists Are Posing as Government Officials in South Dakota to Spread Ballot Measure Disinfo
the South Dakota Petition Integrity Committee and had gotten her information from the state secretary of state’s office. The caller asked Scott-Stoltz about her decision to sign a petition in support of a ballot measure that would enshrine a right to abortion through the first trimester in the state constitution.told Jezebel. She couldn’t find information on the committee on the secretary of state’s website and ended the call.
who say they received calls from the South Dakota Petition Integrity Commission who claimed or suggested that they worked with the secretary of state’s office about what these calls entailed. “I thought it was somebody that was trying to help me make sure that my signature was on the petition and everything was fine with it,” one voter told the outlet.