Litigation: Challenging an Attempt to Delay Redistricting

Litigation: Challenging an Attempt to Delay Redistricting

While over 40% of Lyman County, South Dakota, voters live on the Lower Brule Reservation, an at-large election system made it impossible for Lower Brule Sioux Tribe reservation voters to elect local representation for 30 years. Individual voters and the Tribe filed a lawsuit in May 2022 after the county adopted a 2020 redistricting cycle plan that would delay any opportunity for representation until 2026. Read more about the successfully settled Lower Brule Sioux Tribe et al v. Lyman County et al case on the NARF website.

(Photo of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Reservation courtesy of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.)