Political terms should all match

Greetings. Are you fed up with political ads yet? The election is six weeks from yesterday, on June 2. It will be the primary election. We were supposed to be able to early-vote, but getting ballots out hit a snag, so I’m not sure when a person can vote early. Seems like we’re always kind of reinventing the wheel on ballots and election procedures.
A couple of things that I am always asked: Everyone in the South Dakota House and the South Dakota Senate run for election every two years. The governor and lieutenant governor run every four years. Our lone congressperson runs every two years, but the U.S. Senate is every six years. Our constitutional officers, ie: secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, School and Public Lands, attorney general, all serve four-year terms except for our three Board of Public Utilities (PUC) serve a six-year term. It really is just a little confusing. Here’s an idea: how about everyone serve a four-year term?
The hard part of being in the legislature is that we all, meaning every House and Senate member, have to run for reelection every other year. I do like to campaign, but would still like it if I ran for a four-year term. We ran a bill a few years ago to change the two-year term to a four-year term, but it didn’t even come close to passing. I think if we have to run every two years, then so should the governor and lieutenant governor. 
Now, here’s the part that is almost unbelievable. If you wanted to be one of our constitutional officers, you need to get elected by the delegates who attend the Republican and Democratic state conventions. Our state Republican convention is taking place June 25-27 of this year. So, say you wanted to be the state treasurer; you would need to attend the convention and campaign among all the delegates who attend. No proxy votes. One must be there in person.
On Saturday, the 27th the elections for each constitutional officer whose term is up are elected by the attending convention delegates. On that Saturday all the Republican members who get selected are placed on the ballot in November. The same goes for Democrats.
Marcia and I are both delegates representing the Keystone District. We are designated committee man and committee woman for the Keystone District. Pretty fancy titles, huh? Last election, we had to be on the ballot and be elected during the June primary. This election cycle we are unopposed. In addition to being a precinct committee man or woman, there are other delegates called “delegates at large” who also have to be voted in during the primary election.
To take this to the next level, each delegate, depending on where they are from, have their votes weighted, (kind of like a decision matrix we used in the Army). So, how that works now is too complicated to explain and there is not enough space to fill you in, so another time.