I live in Fall River County which is next to Shannon co and counts their votes. As of 1 am on the 6th Shannon co had not reported any votes at all. Ithink they waited to see the vote total to find out the number they needed to win and the VOILA
Please do me a great favor ... can you as a freeper look into this issue of how the votes in shannon county were handled and delivered.
... this is from an article by the Rapid City Journal 3 weeks before the election, written by Heidi Bell Gease at
heidi.bell@rapidcityjournal.com :
"Fall River Auditor Sherrill Dryden, who handles general elections for Shannon County on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, has experienced that first-hand. "Our increase in the total number of voters in Shannon County has increased probably over 1,000 (since June), and we're still putting people in," she said, adding that Shannon County started with about 5,700 registered voters."
Could you call this Sherrill Dryden up and ask here a few questions about the 10 precincts in Shannon county:
- did they have poll watchers from both parties?
- who kept the poll rolls?
- was the increase in voting vs 2000 concentrated in any precincts? ie what was the precinct by precinct vote totals for 2000 and for 2002 in shannon county?
- how much of the voting was absentee?
- how many of the 2854 voters for Johson and 250 voters for Thune were voters who were new registrants?
- who delivers the ballot boxes? who does the scanning?
fall river?
Answers would clue in exactly and focus on if and where the fraud happened.
THIS IS A KEY POINT! You see registration since June 2002 increased 30% - unusual in and of itself - BUT THE VOTE TOTALS INCREASED 70% SINCE 2000 Presidential race! Highly unusual indeed.
Can you ask her if there is precinct by precinct breakdown of vote totals, reigstration change totals and change from 2000?