I think that they needed to have alot of illegal voting, the problem was in order to get enough in to tip the election, they had to show a huge number of indian voters registered between the primary and election day. If they had not, they would look suspect that 80 or 100percent of registered voters turned out for the election. Those numbers won't jive with past percentages or other counties around the state.
If they had not gotten over 10,000 new voters registered, they would only be able to add as many votes as there were current registered voters. They ran into a problem at the end because Thune did so well. In some of the polling places around reservations they are showing almost all registered voters voted--remember they added thousands--and it looks like in one precinct more voters voted than there are eligible voters in the county. Fraud is glaring and I am hoping we hear news in next two weeks of what happens next.
If wide spread voter fraud is found, the only thing that can be done is to throw out the votes of the entire districts involved. There is no way that a number of ballots can be eliminated from the vote total.
How can you distinguish who voted for who? Ballots do not have names on them. Its against the law.
It is a lost cause as far as Thune is concerned. What we need to do now is to investigate how wide spread this voter fraud is, who was involved and prosecute them to the full extent of the law.
However, due to them being Native Americans, they will get a pass. Mark my word on that.