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UPDATE: Apparently there's now discussion at the courthouse of this new Rapid City Journal piece. Excerpt:

Rumors about vote buying have been sweeping Indian Country. Bruce Whalen, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe running for the state Legislature on the Republican ticket, sent a letter to tribal President John Yellow Bird Steele alleging the vote buying and urging Steele to stop it.
Republican state vice chairman Elli Schwiesow said tribal people have stopped at the Republican office in Pine Ridge to ask for money for their vote.

"We've had people burst through our door and demand money. We'll ask what candidate, and they'll say Demo-crat," she said.

Despite the rumors, Fall River County officials, who handle Shannon County ballots, haven't found any proof. State's Attorney Lance Russell said he had heard disturbing stories but had no evidence to prove them.


UPDATE: Everyone is still waiting.

UPDATE: They are going into the courtroom.

UPDATE: The judge has issued an order restricting Republicans from recording license plate numbers of people leaving the polls in Charles Mix County.

***note that it doesn't say a registered independent couldn't write down plate #'s or that they can't write them down as they come in, or taking pictures (So. Dak. logic courtesy of my mother) Also, back to everyone who lives nearby knows who drive what vehicle***

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UPDATE: Well, this is a kick in the pants for the Democrats, who wanted the judge to force the Republican Party to completely re-deploy all its poll watchers. They had no substantive evidence, they relied on a Howard Dean operative who has been here for a day as the basis for their case, they looked desperate, they didn't get the relief they wanted, the entire GOP poll watching system is still in place, and more questions have been raised about why Democrats are so paranoid about people "ostentatiously taking notes."