VOTER FRAUD ARREST TO BE MADE - SD

Mobridge SD Tribune ^ | 11/12/02 | LANA JOHNSON

[Elkiejg]

Becky Red Earth-Villeda, also known as Maka Duta, the Flandreau woman hired by the South Dakota Democratic Party to recruit voters, will be arrested for alleged forgery of absentee ballot applications.

According to Attorney General Mark Barnett, Red Earth-Villeda is suspected of forging the signatures on 500 to 1,000 absentee ballot applications in 25 counties statewide, including Dewey County. She will face the multiple charges in Minnehaha County.

"Maka Duta will be arrested in the ordinary course of events," said Barnett. "No evidence has been obtained that shows she has cast or made an attempt to cast actual ballots."

Red Earth-Villeda was interviewed by investigators extensively on Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Hired as an independent contractor, Red Earth-Villeda was fired by the Democratic Party after it was discovered in early October that two of the people she "registered" were invalid. One such "registration" was discovered by Ziebach County Auditor Cindy Longbrake.

Longbrake received a ballot application for Denise Red Horse. The main problem with the application is that it was dated Sept. 21, 18 days after Red Horse had died in an automobile accident. An application for Red Horse was also received in Dewey County.

Dewey County Auditor Adelle Enright said another application for a deceased woman, Marjorie Clown, was also received by her office.

Currently, there are 30 South Dakota Department of Criminal Investigation agents working on the case.

[CPT Clay]

If those 10,000 were in the pricincts that voted 94-6 for Johnson the election is overturned.

[Congressman Billybob]

Absentee votes come in two envelopes. The outside one identifies the voter, so he/she can be identified on the voter rolls. So, with those votes it IS possible to identify the fraudulent vote.

In person voters cannot be sorted out. However, if it is shown that 9% of the votes in Glotz County were fraudulent, there IS a remedy. Say the total vote in Glotz was 4,000, with 2,800 for Johnson and 1,200 for Thune, a net gain to Johnson of 1,600 votes. The 9% fraud means 360 bad votes.

Odds are, those are all Democrat votes, but that cannot be proven, given the secret ballot. So the remedy cannot be just to subtract 360 from Johnson's total. However, if the 360 is subtracted from the whole County total, it drops to 3,640. Hold the Johnson-Thune ratio constant from Glotz County, and the votes become 2,558 for Johnson and 1,092 for Thune, for a net gain to Johnson of 1,466.

So the correction for fraud in Glotz County would drop Johnson's net margin by 134 votes. Do the same thing in all the counties where fraud is established, and Thune wins -- either in the S.D. recount, or in the US Senate recount in January.

Congressman Billybob

"to Restore Trust in America"

[diotima]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Credo]

My hope is Thune asks for a recount in a timely fashion if there is suspected vote fraud.

If???

Vote fraud is never irrelevant.

Thanks for you comments. I agree with you. One, I posted before thinking. My problem is not with the concept of resisting vote fraud - it's with the application of it. The Republicans in the Thune case are walking a fine line. They need some ironclad evidence of vote fraud if they're going to attempt to overturn the apparent results of an election. Not only do they need to be able to move this through a court, but they need to get their message out through the media that the democrats routinely commit election fraud. Someone a lot smarter than me has to navigate Thune through the gate of public opinion. If he doesn't do this right, it could really look bad.

The relevance quote was in relationship to the Landrieu race. I recognize that she is in office primarily due to vote fraud. This is because the Republicans wimped out in 1996. If Terrel wins convincingly, any democratic vote fraud would be rendered irrelevant but it still needs to be investigated & pronto.

[dd5339]

Voter fraud ping!

[Temple Owl]

It is obvious that the left-wing liberal press feels that Wynona Ryder shop-lifting some wearing apparell is far more important than Minnie Ha ha stealing an election. The penalties for vote fraud should be dealt with harshly.

[shhrubbery!]

Marjorie Clown

Maka Duta filed a fake application for Marjorie Clown?

I thought Maka Duta was a pretty funny name to begin with, but she found one even better. Beats registering Fido Dog or Trixie Cat, I guess.

[rstevens]

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.

[jpl]

If they discovered 500 to 1,000 phony signatures in South Daokata alone, just imagine how many they haven't caught everywhere else.

[jpl]

The above should read "South Dakota".

[aristeides]

And if a recount occurs, it is my hope that massive election fraud perpetrated by the dems is uncovered.

Especially since Daschle is claiming that the Johnson victory in SD shows that Bush got no real mandate in the election.

[EDINVA]

the RNC had best treat this election as if the balance of power in the Senate were still up for grabs in this one seat. Not only does Thune deserve that support, it may be that the GOP needs him seated in '04 or '06 to keep the majority. I stayed up till 8am ET on Wednesday, November 6, tracking the SD returns at the state site ... and an interesting track that was .... Thune took a good lead as they went into the state's Western counties .. then every half hour or so a new precinct or so would be posted, each new posting reducing the gap between Thune and JOhnston by approximately 200 votes. When I finally fell asleep, AFTER THE RETURNS FROM CA, AND EVEN HAWAII, had been in, there were five (5) SD counties still out. Thune was up @478 votes ... three hours later when I awoke, miracle of miracles, Johnson had overtaken Thune by 500 votes. This is the oldest trick in the book, where the Democrats will hold some of THEIR precincts until the bitter end to see how many votes are needed to put their guy over the top. If the GOP doesn't wake up, we are in serious trouble .. and we will be hard pressed to get candidates of Thune's stature to run. (Oh, and Landrieu was able to be seated last time ONLY because the GOP didn't stand with Woody Jenkins .. let's not have history repeat itself).

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Political correctness doesn't fly on this one. If that is what is stopping the GOP, they are cowards.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Every extra vote helps keep the RINOs in line. Fight! 100% of the reservations voting in an off year? Voters simply aren't that stupid. Only a coward would wonder if voters were that stupid.

[Salvation]

BTTT! My prediction is that Thune wins!

[Wphile]

That seems like a statistical remedy and I really doubt South Dakota would buy it. I think they should render the vote null and void due to suspected voter fraud. Ask for a runoff with just the two running again. Johnson vs. Thune. Me thinks Thune would win it in a cake walk. I doubt this is a remedy in South Dakota law either but it certainly makes sense to me.

Today is the day they have to report the results of the canvassing, I believe. Thune then has 3 days to decide to challenge or request a recount. I say he go for an investigation.

[Salvation]

My understanding is that if Thune calls for a recount he cannot file a lawsuit.

So he is standing by and keeping all his options open.

Anyone know if this is what is happening?

[Salvation]

Thanks for those links, backhoe!!!!

[appeal2]

You hit the nail right on the head. Gore had all of the subtlety of velvet hammer. This is the right way to handle this. How many feds does it take to detect voter fraud?