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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.

There is a simple reason for higher Indian turnout in Arizona. It has to do with Tribal elections. This year, for the first time, the Navajo's combined the General election with their tribal leadership elections. Tribal members have always turned out for the Tribal elections as it has to do alot with their own clan positions in the tribe.

Another factor was the tribes interest in the 3 Gambling propositions. That drew Indians out from all over the State.

Also, the Democratic Congressional candidate, Cordova, spent many days on the reservation, working with tribal leaders to increase in chances of offsetting the strong showing the Republican candidate would have in the rest of the County. Cordova lost big overall, but really had an impact on all other Statewide races.

Indians have traditionally voted Democrat, with the exception of votes for Goldwater (Senator and US President) and some pretty good crossover for JD Hayworth, when he was their US congressman.

Somebody posted a rumour that the Rats had relocated Indians from reservations on nearby states like Nebraska just in time for them become residents of South Dakota so they could vote. Sometime after the election they will be moved back. Maybe this was done in Arizona too. I'm not sure if that could have gone unnoticed or not. Would this be considered fraud or could it be legal?