Early voting probe started (South Dakota voter fraud investigation)

Rapid City Journal ^ | October 29, 2004 | Rapid City Journal

[finallyatexan]

If young men and women can fight and die for this country at the age of 18 than they should be able to vote for the people that are going to send them off to die!!!!

I am around high school and college kids all the time and they are very bright, talented, smart people who are very capable of making intelligent decisions.

[dumpdaschle]

"I seem to recall Shannon county having only about 520 people, on a good day."That is exactly what I was thinking too. To most people reading this thread a few thousand votes doesn't sound like very many voters. But, Shannon County is about as rural as it gets. The county covers a rather large area though, people are just spread out. That county is, by the way, the one that was so late to count their votes in the 2002 race.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

Why do we have illegal aliens with "ID's"?
Beside the elections officials at polling places have the authority to waive the official ID requirement upon their own vouch for the person's identity. The new law is being implemented far too weakly because of charges of Rep. voter suppression on the reservations.

[pepsionice]

Its supposed to a felony in any state. What we need is a simple $15k fine for each individual caught. Half of the money goes to the law enforcement agency who arrested the guy, and half to the folks who found the instance of dual voting. Instead of speed traps, we'd have voting traps...and we'd actually see people arrested in their driveway...and toted off to jail

[reaganaut]

In SD,if you vote absentee, you can either send a copy of your ID card, or have it notarized. If you have a notary in your pocket, you could vote twice.

[reaganaut]

But, Shannon County is about as rural as it gets. The county covers a rather large area though, people are just spread out. That county is, by the way, the one that was so late to count their votes in the 2002 race.

Officially, the reason their votes were so late was because there they have to send their ballots to another county (Fall River?) before they can be counted. But, in reality, it was probably because they were still filling out enough votes to keep Liberal Tim Johnson in against Thune.