A former Republican county official in South Dakota has pleaded no contest to charges of possessing illegal images of children. According to KELO, way back in 2022, Rocky Hayes came under suspicion when “authorities searched his Lincoln County home after receiving a cyber tip that he possessed an illegal video of a child being raped. According to the Secretary of State’s office, Hayes used to run at least three businesses out of his home. But since the original charges were filed, the internet appears to have been scrubbed of information and photos of Hayes. When DCI agents searched Hayes’s ho…