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The turnout of the Indian vote for Tim Johnson was classic Chicago politics. They waited until the vote was all in so they knew how many to stuff the box with then released the reservation vote the following day. The interesting thing is that the legal status of the reservations, that being sovereign governmental bodies, only allows inspection of the vote by invitation. Thune's folks knew they could never get to the bottom of the vote on the Pine Ridge reservation. Besides, you would be politically incorrect and open to attack by the Daschle and Johnson machine. With this sort of corruption and the sovereignty of the reservations held up to stop inspection, South Dakota Republicans should look at requiring voting to take place just off the reservation. You can't have it both ways, sovereign nation status and vote in the election on the sovereign soil.

The Pine Ridge Indian reservation is what happened to Thune. Interesting, we have on-going investigations into voter fraud by the Democrats on the reservations and now late in the count just enough votes come in from Pine Ridge to put Johnson over the top! But remember Sen. Daschle was first elected to office in South Dakota by a recount vote in an election already called for his Republican opponent.