History Buff Compares Tight South Dakota Election Results to a Forgotten 1890s County Race That Sparked a Political Reset
In the wake of the razor-thin margin of the south dakota election results, one historian is drawing an eerie parallel to the obscure 1894 Custer County courthouse race that flipped the state's political map. That nail-biter, decided by just 11 votes amid a flurry of contested ballots, triggered a legislative purge of election laws—a forgotten pattern that he warns may be repeating itself.