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hard to agree that increased reservation turnout means fraud. here in SD it looks like the dems outhustled the repubs and got the indians registered and then turned them out. as much as i'd love to scream fraud, our republican attorney general and republican secretary of state says everything was clean, including voter registration. all they found was one woman employed by the democratic party who forged about 15 absentee ballot applications and it was the dems who turned her in. she'll be prosecuted but the cries of fraud were not supported. though the margin of victory by johnson is within that allowing for a thune recount, thune appears to be heading towards conceding, rather than a recount.

The turnout of the Indian vote for Tim Johnson was classic Chicago politics. They waited until the vote was all in so they knew how many to stuff the box with then released the reservation vote the following day. The interesting thing is that the legal status of the reservations, that being sovereign governmental bodies, only allows inspection of the vote by invitation. Thune's folks knew they could never get to the bottom of the vote on the Pine Ridge reservation. Besides, you would be politically incorrect and open to attack by the Daschle and Johnson machine. With this sort of corruption and the sovereignty of the reservations held up to stop inspection, South Dakota Republicans should look at requiring voting to take place just off the reservation. You can't have it both ways, sovereign nation status and vote in the election on the sovereign soil.