[xsysmgr]

Looks like Johnson copied a page out of the tactics book of another Johnson: "Landslide" Lyndon.

[mgc1122]

Rats cannot win an honest election. Period. Time to charge some of these people under the RICO statutes for conspiracy IMO.

[coramdeo]

I'm from Illinois, so nothing strikes me as unusual about this. In a close election, the Democrats hold back a few precincts, stuff in enough votes to make the difference, and count them at the very end to make sure you have the right outcome. Golly jeepers, this is Election Stealing 101.

[coramdeo]

Unless I'm mistaken, the conditions Thune put on seeking a recount have already been met - isn't a Democratic operative cooling her heels in the Big House right now charged with voter registration fraud? And didn't I read in something on FR that she was refusing to take the fall, instead insisting that the state Dem party was fully aware of what she was doing? Anyone have a link to that?

[Stefan Stackhouse]

NEVER allow the most overwhelmingly Democrat precincts be the LAST to report their results. NEVER!

[PatrioticAmerican]

BTTT

[samtheman]

Republicans want to be careful in the course they choose. They have already won the Senate, and they do not want to embroil the party in a long, acrimonious fight over a contest that will not affect the balance of power in Washington.

This issue is bigger than who controls the Senate. This is about Democracy in America. If election-fraud is allowed to stand when "it doesn't matter that much", it will grow like a cancer that will destroy our political system and give us a one-party dictatorship.

[Sender]

It may be more difficult to investigate voter fraud if, say, 2000 of those Johnson votes come from the native american community. For instance, do the voters on the reservation all have social security numbers or any other uniquely identifying ID so that we can be absolutely sure that 2000 of them actually voted?

[LurkerNoMore!]

Another interesting tidbit here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/784111/posts

[dark_lord]

Republicans want to be careful in the course they choose. They have already won the Senate, and they do not want to embroil the party in a long, acrimonious fight over a contest that will not affect the balance of power in Washington.

Byron York is wrong. Going from 51 to 52 in the Senate is worth fighting for - especially if it can root out vote fraud. Failure to aggressively fight vote fraud just gives the Dems an edge. In 2004 we want to increase Republican seats in the Senate to 55+. Ideally we want > 60 Senate seats Republican. This is very possible, and will make the Senate filibuster-proof.

[F-117A]

Not wanting to deflate the balloon, but the large number of votes in Shannon county and the fact that the ballots are counted by officials in another county may have contributed to the lateness. Invalid votes may have been cast long before.

On the other hand, the fact that the tribal elections were held at the same time with food handed out (which is illegal in governmental elections, but ok in tribal election - reports are they were in separate locations, but did not indicate if they were in adjoing rooms, different building, etc.) may have caused a greater turnout. It may be that holding the tribal elections at the same time simply provides cover for fraud. Remember the reservations in NY state that Hillary would be familiar with, perhaps old Indians were taught new tricks!

Does anyone have a breakdown of actual vs. absentee ballots in Shannon county?

In the last precinct Thune picked up votes. That was probably from Davision country where they had a computer chip problem and a new one had to be driven in from Omaha.

[Letitring]

It will be very interesting to see the end result of this investigation. I intend to follow it and hope everyone on this thread will. It's my understanding the FBI has been on the scene since they were called in by local officals. Locals became very concerned when they saw over 17,000 NEW registrations, cross their desks, JUST since the PRIMARIES. Democrat greed abounds. :)

[F-117A]

One other interesting note is that there were 2,684 more votes cast than the total for all Senate candidates. (340,181 - 337,497 = 2,684)