Johnson Now Leads Thune

[FlyingFish]

With 1 precinct remaining Johnson now has a 500+ vote advantageover Thune.

[Letitring]

RNC charging fraud. FBI looking into irregularities in several polling places, with one staying open too long. On CNN just now. Could be rumblings rather than fact.

[Credo]

Who certifies this in SD? What are the courts like? This is obvious fraud.

[nocommies]

recount.... the runoff theyre talking about is in la because landrieu didnt get 50% plus one...

[breakem]

Last night on one of the reports from SD a reporter said that the law in SD is that absentee ballots are counted after all of the at-the-polls ballots.

I only heard that once and this morning there was no mention of absentee ballots in the Fox report which just ended.

[PLMerite]

"To successfully steal an election, they have to not get caught."

No, to successfully steal an election, it just has to stand. Whether or not their fall guy goes to the slammer is unimportant to the "real" bad guys.

[Letitring]

Ah, great. Sad it happened, but glad they caught the cheatin, stealing, lying jerk. One with many more to follow. FBI has been in SD for a couple of months looking into this Indian Reservation thing.

[Logic n' Reason]

I am afraid my friends that, barring a complete turnabout in a re-count, we've lost this one.

OK...fine, let's move on with the majority that we have.

Nuff said!

[FlyingFish]

Is the SD Attorney General a RAT or PUBBIE? How about the Sec'y of State?

[alancarp]

Thune outpolled in Shannon (worst turnout in the state -- 44% vs. 71% statewide) by a margin of 2856 to 248 (92% to 8%), which virtually matches the 11 to 1 Dem-to-Rep registration ratio.

[RooRoobird14]

Maka Duta, a contract worker for the Democrats who authorities say will be charged with forgery in connection with absentee-ballot applications, has put out a press release claiming her work was directly overseen by supervisors at state Democratic headquarters.

I hope every freaking ballot is dusted for fingerprints and examined under a microscope in the re-count--which will likely turn up hundreds if not thousands fraudulent ballots.

[rockinonritalin]

The last two precincts reported in Shannon County give Johnson 690 to 30 vote margin. How obvious can the cheating be?

How long can it take to count 720 votes? I don't care if they voted on paper ballots or paper napkins, two determined 2nd graders could have finished in a couple of hours with a cost to the taxpayers of maybe a few juice boxes.

SD Democrats held out reporting these fraud-ridden precincts until they knew how many votes they needed, just as they did in Florida in 2000.

[Smedley]

Wonder why it took so long to manufacture the votes.

Don't rush the dead voters.

[commish]

If this holds up after recount and verifications of absentee signatures -- the Senate is now 51-47-1.

Look at that closely - now see how important LA becomes. If Landrieu winds we have 51-48-1, and Jim Jeffords and Lincoln Chafee become the Dems biggest friends ... get Jumpin Jim to declare D and you have 51-49, give Weasel CHAPSME enough money to switch and it becomes 50-50 .... WE MUST WIN LOUISIANA!

[bioprof]

Anyone know how we set up residency in Louisiana? I'm gassing up my car right now.

[hchutch]

If Thune loses under questionable circumstances, it may hurt Landrieu, who won her first term under a could of controversy.

[alancarp]

The SD Atty Gen is Republican Mark Barnett;
Sec. of State is Republican Joyce Hazeltine;
Lt. Governor is Republican Carole Hillard;
Governor is Republican William J. Janklow.

NEWLY ELECTED Atty General is Republican Larry Long;
NEWLY ELECTED Governor is Republican Mike Rounds;
NEWLY ELECTED Sec. State is Republican Chris Nelson.
Pubbies also won State Treaas. and State Auditor.
In 2000, Thune won his Congressional seat with 73% of the vote over Curt Hohn.

[Dionysius]

525? That's more dead Indians than at Wounded Knee and The little Big Horn combined!

[js1138]

Your worst case scenerio (losing LA, SD and two defections, makes it 50-50. That's a GOP majority. So why would anyone defect to the minority party?

Besides, GOP got 51% in LA.

[FlyingFish]

The FBI may decide this election. Hopefully, the investgation and questionable absentee ballots will throw it into turmoil and the US Senate will decide?

[tamikamaria]

Okay folks, I know we all know the Dems cheated on the reservations, but I just talked to a poll worker on the phone from the Cheyenne River Reservation and what she told me made me sick.

She said there were absentee ballots that were obviously fake, all kinds of people voting that were not old enough to vote, people showing up to vote with absentee ballots that they didn't request. She said the Dems brought in lawyers from Washington DC and Indiana, and that they were heavily pressuring the poll workers to accept and count the questionable ballots.

She is also sure that lots of the voters were paid to come in and vote. One man and woman came in stinking drunk to vote, and when they got in the booth the man asked the woman "So how much cheese are we going to get for voting?" Don't laugh, I am not making that up. She said that if some of the voters that came in were 18 years old, then she had the Brooklyn Bridge to sell me. They don't have to show ID to vote, their names were on the rolls, so they had to let them vote.

I asked her opinion on Shannon County, and she said she was sure that they left that til last so they could see how many votes they needed. She works in a relatively small precinct (200 or so voters) so I can only imagine what went on in the larger areas.

She also said the Dem lawyers breathed down their neck the whole time and were obnoxious beyond belief. She said she can understand how all that crud went on in Florida because the people that came in were the stupidest people on the planet. She said they didn't know how to vote, they didn't know how to do anything.

I am 100% positive, without a doubt, that the Rats used the Reservations to steal this election for Johnson. Sickening. Absolutely sickening.