[jwalburg]

The boards would convene Monday, Nov. 25, and have no deadline to complete their work. Board members would examine each ballot physically, looking for an official ballot stamp and any irregularities. State law spells out how to identify and handle various kinds of disputed ballots, he said. The law sets up a two-person resolution board to examine ballots that machines have trouble counting, he said.

Will hoards of Dem chad-checking lawyers come in to help out, I wonder.

[MrPeanut]

Thune came up at the President's news conference. I think he is about to get an appointment somewhere in this adiministration for showing alot of class. The American people do not want leaders with recounts- they want leaders with class.

[nutmeg]

Bump to read later

[Tree of Liberty]

If Thune does not contest the outcome, what are the chances he'll run against Dash-hole in '04?

[SoDak]

It's hard to even post about this yet, I still feel like my heart got ripped out yesterday morning. All the blood, sweat, and tears and we lost. It might not have been so bad even if we got beat by a landslide, but to get beat by 500 votes feels awful. America still won, in the larger picture, and in SD, Repubs won every other election of consequence, but this one will be hard to get over. If fraud is found on the res, it needs to be exposed.

[who knows what evil?]

In 1978, then-Congressman Tom Daschle defeated Leo Thorsness, ultimately by 139 votes, in the state's former first congressional district in eastern South Dakota.

The potential consequences of voter fraud...if 140 of these votes were fraudulent, and they had been CAUGHT, we might NOT have had Tom Daschle to contend with the past two years (or before that, as well...who knows? Where might JOHNSON be in twenty years, if we let him get away with it?)

[Attillathehon]

I think there was a lot less vote fraud this time because the Dems were afraid that Ashcroft would prosecute them. If he doesn't go after the perps in South Dakota, the Dems will be up to their old tricks in the 2004 election. Vote integrity is extremely important and every single allegation of vote fraud, no matter how small or apparently inconsequential, must be investigated and the perps prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[Lurking2Long]

Nelson, the state's longtime elections supervisor, said he knew of no other reports of voting irregularities beyond a few unfounded rumors floating around Wednesday.

Could one of you more computer savvy Freepers please send this "supervisor" the text of one of the more salient South Dakota threads so he can see that there are more than just "rumors" to this debacle!

[Lurking2Long]

Just sent this e-mail to the reporter who covered the story.

Enjoyed your story about the Senatorial election. However, I really hope and pray that you do some investigative reporting to dig into these supposed “rumors” of vote fraud. If you look at the statistics surrounding voting in Shannon County I think you will begin to see that this election is not in lone with past ones. Additionally, you should explore the angle of why these results came in (conveniently) last out of all precincts, and why, in the weeks leading up to the election, there were so many instances of voter registration fraud that were discovered. Regardless of any political persuasion you may have, it would be nice to see you, as a U.S. citizen and a reporter, take the initiative to dig into this situation. Who knows; there may be a Pulitzer prize awaiting your efforts. God bless!

Hope she takes the bait!

[Saundra Duffy]

The suspense!!!!!!!!!

[mrs9x]

State law sets a Monday, Nov. 18, deadline for someone to legally contest the election results.

So, can anyone in South Dakota file a challenge, or is this only for Thune to do? It seems like according to the paper, any voter in S.D. could have standing. If so, some S.D. freeper needs to call an RNC lawyer and get a lawsuit going!

[backhoe]

Vote fraud is cancer that undermines, denegriates and invalidates everybody's vote- right, left, or center. It needs to be uncovered, and rooted out:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/784452/posts

South Dakota Suspicions
The National Review ^ | 11-07-02 | Byron York

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/783850/posts
What happened in Bon Homme Co., S.D.?
CNN ^

 

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/4459206.htm

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/783963/posts

Arrest Expected in Voter Fraud Investigation (South Dakota)
South Dakota Attorney General ^ | 11/01/2002 | Mark Barnett
I just found an article that confirms that the Libertarian candidate DID drop out and DID throw his support to Thune. This minor little item barely made it to local papers, if at all.
http://www.argusleader.com/columnists/dkranz/10_20_02.shtml

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/784111/posts

So Dak More Registered Voters Than Population??
Myself ^ | 10/6/2002 | Myself

And if that wasn't bad enough, there's worse:

-The Vote Fraud Archives--

-Need Vote Fraud articles, stories, and evidence? Here's a source--

[Freee-dame]

By 2 a.m., Thune held a fairly commanding lead of more than 3,000 votes. By sunrise, Johnson had made up the ground and edged ahead.

The old find-the-votes-you-need long after the polls close trick. Somehow it didn't work in Baltimore this year.

[coramdeo]

Thune is playing this right, showing great concern about the gravity of asking for the recount. Remember the repellant vision of Al Gore and his minions smacking their lips in anticipation. This way, if it looks favorable, he will look like he is reluctantly doing it only because it's the right thing to do.

[Graewoulf]

Here we go again! Just like in the election in Florida, 2000 by trying to count legally cast ABSTAIN votes (= blank spaces, or dimpled chads) as votes FOR a candidate!

Now the democrats AND the Republicans will both be trying to "GORE" this election!

To "GORE" an election is to count ABSTAIN votes as votes FOR yourself!

What is needed here is for the election officials to count in the vote totals all the ABSTAIN votes ( blank spaces, or non=punched chads) as ABSTAIN votes!

[timydnuc]

We still have a shot at revenge for John Thune's close loss. We have Louisiana. I lived there (LA) for 6 years and I know what happened the last time Little Mary ran against Woody Jenkins. Jenkins got robbed! You see it's much easier for the dead to vote in southern Louisiana. They bury them above ground because of the water table. They just open the lid, go to the pols, maybe stop in The Quarter for a drink and go right back to the crypt. Mary's daddy, Moon Landrieu, is very good friends with the dead in NO, you see, he was mayor for a long time, and they made him mayor every election. (By the way, Moon is his real name. It is a name to befit the act he performed daily to the good citizens of NO, an old LA RAT Boss Hog, cut directly for the Long machine).

Besides I want John Thune to come back and bitch slap Tommie Da Hole in 04, and he'll do it.

[pabianice]

The final tally was 167,477 votes for Johnson and 166,949 for Thune. Libertarian Kurt Evans, who had dropped out of the race, drew 3,071 votes.

Ouch. That's the margin.

[LaGrone]

The Pubbies should find out if there is some type of fraud occuring on these reservations. The Feds already arrested one Indian "contract worker" for the Dems for registering illegal Indian voters. What is going to happen to her? Let me guess; nothing. The voting of 2800 Indians in Shannon County sounds like blatant buying of votes. Probably cost them 2800 fifths of whiskey. The Pubbies have to stop the fraud in all states.

If Johnson won fair and square, then fine, we'll get him next time.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump
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[mysonsfuture]

RECOUNT! STOP DEM VOTE FRAUD! Anyone have the number to Thune's campaign office?

[Rome2000]

We agreed the likelihood of there being a 500-vote problem in a canvass isn't very high."

Thats a pretty weak thing to say.

The fraud was blatant and obvious.

If he doesn't have the stones to challenge it in court, he deserves to get ripped off.

NICE GUYS FINISH LAST.