Posted on 10/30/2004 1:17:32 AM PDT by GeronL
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge filed an order Friday that, if upheld, may prevent South Dakota Republican Party workers from observing Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
The Four Directions Committee, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group trying to increase American Indian voting, was granted the temporary restraining order against the South Dakota Republican Party and Ryan Knutson. Oglala Sioux Tribe Judge Marina Fast Horse signed the order without telling them about it ahead of time.
In the document, Four Directions accuses Knutson of intimidating its workers on Wednesday at Pine Ridge by videotaping them on private property as they discussed the voting process.
It does not accuse him of intimidating voters going to the polls early.
Four Directions Executive Director Bret Healy said Friday evening the intent is to stop intimidation of tribal members.
"It's a two-by-four upside the head to get the attention of the folks that are causing problems," he said. "We want an election that doesn't have this kind of nonsense going on."
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Daschle wins the dead Indian vote. Uh oh for Thune :(
Do you have a SD ping list?
Hey tribal guys,
Don't wanna follow USA election laws? Maybe we just don't need to accept your votes. How would you like that?
That's bad news! Daschle has been living politically off dead
indians for years.
If we don't watch, then don't let them count any of the votes. Let the Senate determine whom to seat as per the Constitution. Oh I forgot, Republicans don't play hardball. Never mind.
this is nothing new coming from the reservations. voter fraud isn't something that happens once in a while, it is the law of the land. I don't think that it's going to matter this year though, Daschle is out, finally we South Dakotans have removed our heads from our rear ends and are going to send this Daschle clown back home without a Government paycheck every month. Pray for us.
Souix City needs another newspaper from what I can see in the blogs. I live way down in Texas and I know I can't trust my local papers either.
The Indians kept voting until four in the morning last time after they determined how many votes were needed. I know, I watched the votes come in county by county all night. And they voted twice as many as the prior elections and over 90% Dim in Shannon County (Pine Ridge), just enough to make it.
actually Sioux City is in Iowa, you're probably thinking of Sioux Falls. I can see why people mistake them though, they're both liberal bastions about an hour apart.
Poll watching with video cameras is a little off the reservation as far as I'm concerned. I don't blame the tribal judge for throwing that idea in the garbage heap. When it becomes so imperative to win an election that the cheating becomes a deciding factot, democracy is on the verge of collapse.
By now, I'm sure that Thune and the Justice Department must know what is about to happen. I pray that they have a strategy in place to stop the nonsense this time.
But the Dems have always been this way. It is just now getting natinal scrutiny.
General Phil Sheridan ping.
If you don't let poll watchers in, the votes cast in that polling place should not be counted, pure and simple. To allow this, is asking for massive vote fraud. And since Indians claim they are a separate "nation", what the heck are they doing voting in our elections anyway? This needs to be addressed in Congress pronto!
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If you really want to get technical, Sioux City is in three states, North Sioux City, in SD, South Sioux City, in Nebraska, and Sioux City, in Iowa, but my guess is the newspaper resides in greater Sioux City, Iowa. Not being picky just a little morning geography.
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