We've been following the curious case of Republican South Dakota District 1 candidate Logan Manhart, most recently in Manhart candidate integrity questioned: docs from 32CIV22-92; McCleerey vs Barnett, though we began on May 7 with Dakota Free Press post: Manhart voted in Wisconsin in 2021, thus ineligible to run for South Dakota House in 2022.
On Wednesday afternoon, Hunter Dunterman picked up the story for the Mitchell Republic in South Dakota Democrats challenge 23-year-old's House candidacy, alleging residency violations in Wisconsin.
Part of the article is a review of the facts of the case, but Dunterman also takes readers through a stroll of Manhart's social media post during a time when he appears to have been registered to vote in Wisconsin.
Dunterman reports:
While Manhart did not respond to multiple attempts to contact him, his campaign website, social media activity and newspaper clippings offer some credibility to Democrats’ allegations.
After graduating from Aberdeen Central High School in 2017, Manhart moved to Wisconsin to continue his education, according to a biography on his campaign website. While there, he “found his strength and passion for politics” while working on a reelection campaign for then-President Donald Trump.
“In 2021, Logan graduated with a certificate degree in Leadership Development and Management, with the goal to return home and further the conservative cause in his favorite state,” his biography reads.
Time to add on some extra layers as we talk to conservative voters on a brisk Sunday afternoon 🚪🍁. #doorswinelections #leadright pic.twitter.com/sOskTHeTCb
— Logan Manhart (@ManhartLogan) October 24, 2021
On Sept. 28, 2021, Manhart was photographed by the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram’s Dan Reiland flying an American flag during a voter registration event at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire.
In one tweet from Manhart’s personal account on Oct. 23, 2021, he posted a selfie of him doorknocking in northwestern Wisconsin, while another tweet on Oct. 30, 2021 pictures him alongside U.S Congress Republican candidate Derrick Van Orden at an event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. . . .
Read the entire article at the Mitchell Republic.
Dakota Free Press posted another Manhart story on Tuesday, Novstrup Collects Signatures from Wrong District for Manhart. Cory Allen Heidelberger reported:
Al Novstrup is mostly useless as a Senator; he’s completely useless as a petition circulator.
Last winter, the District 3 Senator predictably helped circulate election liar Logan Manhart‘s fraudulent nominating petition. Every signature Novstrup collected for Manhart was invalid.
Sally Jo Sorensen of Bluestem Prairie has helpfully posted the court documents in the court challenge to Manhart’s fraudulent candidacy. The affidavit backing the SDDP/Steven McCleerey complaint includes as Exhibit #1 Manhart’s nominating petition for District 1 House, 84 signatures (including one invalidated by the absence of the voter’s county) across eight sheets. The eighth petition sheet, as ordered in Exhibit #1, was circulated by Allan Novstrup of 1705 Northview Lane (Al’s winter address in Aberdeen).
Novstrup collected five signatures, two on Thursday, January 6, and three on Friday, January 7. The five signers wishing to nominate Manhart for District 1 House came from four Aberdeen addresses:
- 916 N Lincoln St
- 1017 11th Ave NE
- 1005 N Roosevelt
- 714 S Kline
All four addresses are in District 3. All five signatures that Novstrup collected came from his own constituents in District 3. None of the signers Novstrup solicited could validly sign Manhart’s petition.
Dang—Logan scribbled “District 1” in 14-point font at the top his petition sheet, and Al still couldn’t read it. . . .
I cannot conclude that Manhart is just as dense as Novstrup in missing the obvious District 3 addresses on his District 1 petition. The five sheets Manhart circulated show he knew he needed signatures from outside of the Hub City. He collected lots of rural Aberdeen signatures, plus signatures from his home base of Bath, Groton, and other northeast tundra outposts. Manhart’s a lying menace to democracy, but he’s not stupid.
Check out the rest of the cray-cray details at Dakota Free Press.
Related posts:
- Dakota Free Press post: Manhart voted in Wisconsin in 2021, thus ineligible to run for South Dakota House in 2022
- Manhart candidate integrity questioned: docs from 32CIV22-92; McCleerey vs Barnett
- In SD District One, GOP candidate & operative doesn't want to talk to press about January 6
Photo: Logan Manhart helped draw attention to the UW-Eau Claire College Republicans voter registration table on campus in Eau Claire on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, as part of National Voter Registration Day. Dan Reiland / Eau Claire Leader-Telegram via the Mitchell Republic.
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