R South Dakota Senate · District 6 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Ernie Otten

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Session

Total votes

2,196

all sessions

Attendance

93%

135 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

89%

of cast votes

Higher than 85% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

7%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 89% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

1,723

voted in favor

Nay

320

voted against

Absent

135

missed votes

Total cast

2,196

across all sessions

Crossed party

208

votes against own party

This page

2,196

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 1329

require a forensic audit of election results after each presidential general election.

Absent

Passed

35–31

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1257

establish a fund to assist counties with paying infrastructure expenditures and to declare an emergency.

Yea

Passed

9–2

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1287

revise certain provisions regarding the crime of rape and provide a penalty therefor.

Absent

Passed

55–10

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1308

provide for the payment of signing bonuses to school district staff members.

Absent

Passed

66–0

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1166

make an appropriation for road improvements leading to the former entrance into the Palisades State Park and to declare an emergency.

Absent

Passed

9–1

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1018

make an appropriation for the construction of a storage garage in Rapid City and to declare an emergency.

Absent

Passed

62–3

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1127

modify provisions related to county redistricting.

Absent

Passed

55–10

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1175

make an appropriation for developing the Mickelson Trail and to declare an emergency.

Absent

Passed

10–0

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1311

clarify the means of voluntarily terminating a relationship between a birth mother and a child.

Absent

Failed

29–37

Feb 17, 2022

HB 1282

allow inpatient psychiatric facility placement alternatives for certain patients.

Absent

Passed

67–0

Feb 16, 2022