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---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibit ranked-choice voting."
description: "prohibit ranked-choice voting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "South Dakota SB 55 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Bolin", "Callies", "Castleberry", "Chaffee", "Crabtree", "Deutsch", "Drury", "Fitzgerald", "Hunhoff", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Klumb", "Krohmer", "Kull", "Maher", "Mills", "Moore", "Novstrup", "Otten (Ernie)", "Otten (Herman)", "Perry", "Reimer", "Shorma", "Stalzer", "Tordsen", "Wiik", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fd3ea25-8545-40c2-8d35-8649bcd11355"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23968"
source_hash: "88a2fa829c56ed34c853c791e2ad6ae674773fd0384e2c9e911d59dae5e7e335"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-sd"]
---
# South Dakota SB 55 (2023) — prohibit ranked-choice voting.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23968/242980)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23968/250849)
## Votes
- Do Pass — **71** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **314** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **635** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **121** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blare — primary (person)
- Bolin — primary (person)
- Callies — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Deutsch — primary (person)
- Drury — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Krohmer — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Maher — primary (person)
- Mills — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Shorma — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Tordsen — primary (person)
- Wiik — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-11** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 29 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-01** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 4 S.J. 180 `passage`
- **2023-02-03** First read in House and referred to H.J. 223 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2023-02-27** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 H.J. 7 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-28** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 416
- **2023-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 5 H.J. 437 `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Signed by the President S.J. 417 `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 489 `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-03-07 S.J. 442 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Signed by the Governor on 2023-03-27 S.J. 495 `executive-signature, executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fd3ea25-8545-40c2-8d35-8649bcd11355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).