Left: Heather Baxter | Right: Monae Johnson South Dakota is getting another chief elections officer. Secretary of State Monae Johnson failed to win the Republican nomination for a second term during the South Dakota Republican Party Convention Saturday in Rapid City, where GOP delegates instead favored another Pierre outsider to oversee the state’s elections for the next four years. “When this office runs well, you don’t notice it. When it doesn’t, you feel it everywhere,” Rep.