Query: Given that the overall Dem #'s are up only slightly, yet there are huge increases on the Indian reservations, doesn't that mean the Dems are DOWN in the rest of the state? You are exactly right about that. The net Democratic registration increase in those 8 counties is 4,533. This means that the Rats are in fact DOWN in the rest of the state by a net 2,319.
This could well be another reason for the fraud. South Dakota Rats, already stuck with a very Republican state in terms of registration, noticed their numbers declining outside of the central part of the state, and decided to get even in the most Politically Correct way possible. After all, you can't criticize fraud involving "minorites" or you are a racist.
DWG
A quick run through the numbers shows the most glarely fact, and that is registered R's outnumber registered D's by a wopping 20 percent or there abouts. Assuming there is equal turnout for both parties of about 50 percent, then the D's would have to overcome an approximately 22,000 vote edge to the R's. Assuming the D's overcome this disadvantage and all other things being equal, this amounts to about 5 percent of all votes cast being fraudulent!
The only other explanation would be if two thirds of all the other voters went with the D's.