General election · 3 November 2026

State Senate, District 21

2 candidates on the ballot, listed in certified ballot order.

Race type: Contested
Candidates: 2
Surveys returned: 1 of 2
Race receipts: $16,900

Mykala Voita

Sitting legislator

RepublicanBallot order 1

Where they stand on data centers

100%protective votes — 5 of 5 tracked roll calls

Stood with residents

Survey: responded

“There is a wide range of concern on this topic. Energy consumption required to run these complexes is monstrous. Higher energy rates being passed to consumers, the depletion of our natural resources to generate the power, and building up the infrastructure to even support it is one concern. The land that is used to build these comes with concerns as well. Would they be granted eminent domain authority Are they going to take more agricultural land out of production? Are there health concerns that come with these being by neighborhoods? All of This along with the big question of what Data are they storing to need so many new hyperscale data centers.”

“I co-Sponsored SB135 to address some of the resource and cost concerns. I think we need more guardrails on water and electrical usage to ensure our residents aren't negatively impacted. We need to strengthen our eminent domain laws to ensure private companies cannot exercise that authority. There should not be NDAs signed, all happenings between government entities and these companies need to be open and transparent.”

Published verbatim as submitted

Money — a signal, never a position

$16,900Total receipts reported

$200Matched a flag (A–D)

DIndividuals named in the investigation$200

Flagged donors on recordRon & Linda Paulson $200 [D]

Committee: Voita For The People.

A flag means a donor matched a category. It is not a finding that anything improper happened.

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Dan Andersson

Not a sitting legislator

DemocratBallot order 2

Where they stand on data centers

Nothing on record.Dan has never held legislative office, so there are no roll calls to score.

Survey: no response recorded

With no voting record and no returned questionnaire, this page has nothing from them on data centers. Voters have no stated position to weigh.

Money — a signal, never a position

$0Total receipts reported

—Matched a flag (A–D)

No itemized donors filed. That is not the same as having raised nothing.

Committee: Dan Andersson For South Dakota.

A flag means a donor matched a category. It is not a finding that anything improper happened.

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What the flags mean

A · Data center and Big Tech: The industry itself, its lobbyists, and the trade group that testified for the 50-year tax break.
B · Utility, power and energy: Utilities, generators, transmission and the ethanol bloc — interests whose revenue rises with data center load.
C · The PAC funnel: Money arriving through a political action committee rather than directly.
D · Named individuals: People named in the underlying investigation.
E and F · Outside money: Large national spending and independent expenditure made for a candidate. Never the candidate’s own money, and never added to their receipts.

How the score is built

Roll calls on 2026 data center bills are tracked. A vote counts as protective when it sided with residents on cost, water, or local control.

Candidates with no legislative service have no score. That is shown as an absence, never as a zero.

Full roll calls and bill text: the legislative scorecard.

Correct the record

Every figure here traces to a state-published filing. If something is wrong, we want to fix it fast.

Candidates may submit a questionnaire response at any time; it is published verbatim beside the voting record.

Email corrections through the Elections page.