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Voter Fraud Investigation (S. Dakota)
KSFY ^ | October 14, 2002 | Shelley Keohane

Posted on 10/14/2002 12:22:13 PM PDT by mondonico

Voter Fraud Investigation

Every vote counts - unless ballots are being cast by people who don't exist, are dead or who don't even live in South Dakota. A major case involving those voter fraud issues has been under investigation by the FBI for the past month. KSFY has learned the investigation mainly focuses on six counties including: Dewey, Pennington, Fall River, Charles Mix, Shannon and Ziebach, although there may be other counties involved.

The focus of the investigation centers on absentee ballot registration requests in counties with or near Indian Reservations across South Dakota. A letter recently sent out by the Democratic Party confirms Party officials were notified about possible ballot discrepancies in Dewey County, and when notified contacted authorities immediately. According to their letter, a Democratic Party contractor, Becky Red Earth-Villeda was fired after at least two of the people she registered were found to be invalid.

On October 12, we found evidence that in Ziebach County a woman somehow applied for an absentee ballot after she died. The absentee ballot application for Denise Red Horse is filled out just as it should be: she has an address, she signed where she was supposed to. The major flaw? Denise Red Horse died September 3rd in a car accident. Her application was signed September 21st, 18 days after she was killed.

This is just one of the discrepancies of which Attorney General Mark Barnett has been notified and the FBI is investigating. Barnett says there was one case where the lady had apparently registered in two different counties, another case shows a lady supposedly sent in an absentee ballot some days after she was actually killed in a car accident.

Red Horse's bogus application isn't the only suspicious item Ziebach County's Auditor, Cindy Longbrake has noticed in the past few weeks. She says one person filled out 150 registration cards, and she could tell they were all filled out by the same person. Longbrake says she thought, "She either didn't know what she was doing or, I understand, she was getting paid to do these and she didn't care how she was doing them."

There are several different politically motivated groups on and around Indian Reservations trying to register that particular population. Native Americans make up 8.3 percent of the state's population -which transfers into roughly 63-thousand residents. With close races, especially on the Senate side, every vote truly does count.

According to our sister station KOTA in Rapid City, two brothers are now being investigated for turning in forged voter registration cards to the Pennington County Auditor. The auditor says most of the voter registrations were duplicates which could have been done by copying names and addresses out of a phone book. The brothers were caught after getting the "voters" birthdays wrong.

By Shelley Keohane


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: election; southdakota; voterfraud
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To: Brian Allen
"potty activists"

I like that!! The only thing giving me hope is, the South Dakota Attorney General Barnett's Criminal Investigation Office is investigating along with the FEDS. The FBI is involved because this fraud is happening on federal lands. So, I'm hoping they will be a check on each other, especially if the South Dakota media stays on the case.

Landrieu, Carnahan, Toricelli, now the Johnson/Daschle SD machine = American voters getting the message "Democrats are corrupt." Ya think?

21 posted on 10/14/2002 3:06:24 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: YaYa123
<< Landrieu, Carnahan, Toricelli, now the Johnson/Daschle SD machine = American voters getting the message "Democrats are corrupt." Ya think? >>

You missed the massively-fraudulently erected Congressman Mrs Stephen Simmons Brixey, III -- AKA Orange County's "Loretta Sanchez."

And, no, the "DemocRATS" [Often as you have noted deaand/or otherwise non-existent and/or criminal alien] "voters" fall in to one or other of the categories: [1] Too damned stupid to know they are being lied to and/or; [2] Too damned envious, hateful and greedy to get their hands on someone elses plundered wealth, to care!

FReegards -- Brian
22 posted on 10/14/2002 4:41:57 PM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: mondonico
Go to http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html and hit any page and wait for the pop up window. Amazing stuff.

"Send A Student To Minnesota!
DSA’s national electoral project this year is the Minnesota Senate Election. Together with YDS, DSA’s Youth Section, we are mobilizing to bring young people to Minnesota. Minnesota is one of the few states that allow same day voter registration. We will therefore focus our energy on registering young people. Wellstone will need a high percentage of young people to register and vote for him if he is to stave off the campaign that Bush, the Republicans and the Greens are waging against him. He is the Right’s Number One electoral target.

Because we are focusing on issue-based voter registration, this electoral work can be supported by tax-deductible contributions. The DSA FUND is soliciting tax-deductible contributions to support this project. Contributions are needed to underwrite the costs of transportation as well as providing a stipend for expenses; housing is being donated. You can contribute online with a Master Card or VISA. To contribute, simply choose from one of the amounts listed below. Click on the red dot and you will be taken to a secure server to input your credit card information. Our online order system does not allow us to let you fill in an amount, so if the choices we offer are less than what you want to contribute simply make more than one transaction until you reach the total you want to contribute."

23 posted on 10/14/2002 5:03:28 PM PDT by chnsmok
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To: mondonico
The Stealing of America
24 posted on 10/14/2002 5:56:35 PM PDT by USA21
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To: mondonico
No wonder a conservative state like SD has two D Senators...
25 posted on 10/14/2002 5:59:44 PM PDT by copycat
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To: chnsmok
Dont you have to prove you're a citizen of the MN to same-day register?
26 posted on 10/14/2002 6:02:18 PM PDT by copycat
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To: copycat
Don't know. I would hope so. I imagine if the Dems made the rules, they will easy enough to get around. I live in Washington state.
27 posted on 10/14/2002 8:27:03 PM PDT by chnsmok
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To: chnsmok
The press has got wind of the DSA's little scheme. See the article posted here.
28 posted on 10/15/2002 9:30:56 AM PDT by mondonico
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To: Brian Allen
You give an apt synopsis of the 'Rats presidential election wins of the last 40 years.
29 posted on 10/15/2002 5:09:49 PM PDT by Bigg Red
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To: Brian Allen
Good one -- Democrats:

[1]Too damned stupid to know they are being lied to and/or; [2] Too damned envious, hateful and greedy to get their hands on someone elses plundered wealth, to care!

30 posted on 10/15/2002 5:24:12 PM PDT by GOPJ
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