Did Dead Indians Vote For Hillary?
By Richard PoeOctober 21, 2002
IT NEVER fails. Probe the deepest, darkest pits of corruption in America and, sooner or later, Hillary Clinton turns up.
Thanks to a Big-Media news blackout, most Americans don’t know that Congressional elections in South Dakota are melting down fast amid charges of Democrat vote fraud – much of it centered on Indian reservations.
How does Hillary fit in? Let me explain.
Last week, the Senate passed a vote reform bill 92-2. Only two Senators opposed it: Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.
Among other things, the bill requires voters to show I.D., such as a driver’s license. This will hopefully stop some fraudulent voters.
But Hillary objects. "This would make it more difficult to vote in New York," she complains to the New York Post.
Why do New York Senators oppose vote reform? Is there something about New York elections that makes Democrats in these parts fear a crackdown on fraud?
Many New Yorkers still wonder how such an unpopular figure as Hillary got elected in the first place.
Rumors of voting irregularities have dogged Hillary since Election Day 2000. But no one seems keen to investigate. Even when Hillary won an unheard-of 99 percent of the vote in the Hasidic Jewish town of New Square, N.Y. – where Bill Clinton had pardoned some local bigwigs convicted of felony fraud – no one tried very hard to discover whether Hillary had traded those pardons for votes.
We are left with little more than doubts and rumors. Even so, Chuck and Hillary’s anti-vote-reform activism demands explanation.
If Hillary wanted to steal an election in New York, how would she do it? One clue may come from the election scandal in South Dakota – home of Senate majority leader Tom Daschle.
South Dakota faces a tight race. Polls show the candidates running neck and neck. Daschle is not running this year, but his control of the Senate may hang on whether Senator Tim Johnson holds his seat against Republican John Thune. In a state with only 700,000 people, every vote counts.
That’s why Democrats made a special effort this year to squeeze votes out of South Dakota’s Indian reservations.
Among other techniques, Democrats have hired contractors to sign up Indian voters, paying by the number of absentee ballots and voter registration cards they collect. The results have been impressive.
Since the June primary, record numbers of new voters have registered in South Dakota – about 17,000 – with some counties distributing nearly twice as many absentee ballots as in past elections.
About 25 percent of the new voters come from Indian reservations. While voter registration is up by 1-3 percent in most South Dakota counties, many counties on Indian land report gains of 10-17 percent.
There’s only one problem – a large portion of those registrations may be fraudulent.
Lyle Duane Nichols – one of two brothers hired by the Sioux Tribes Voter Registration and Education Project (which is funded by the leftwing Bauman Foundation) – faces 25 years in prison for allegedly forging voter registration cards, including some in the names of dead people.
"It appears the vast majority of cards he submitted through this organization were fraudulent," says Pennington County Sheriff Don Holloway. "It looks like what he was doing was picking names out of the phone book or out of the newspaper."
State and FBI investigators are scrutinizing Becky Red Earth-Villeda – also known by her Sioux name of Maka Duta – for allegedly falsifying registrations. Democrats paid $12,867 for her services since June.
More than 10 counties in South Dakota have been swept up in the probe. More may follow. Twenty-six counties boast more registered voters than voting-age people.
The unfolding scandal suggests at least one strategy that Hillary might have used in New York.
Like South Dakota, New York has a large Native American population – 82,461 to South Dakota’s 62,283. As in South Dakota, our reservations all too often act as banana republics, harboring corrupt enterprises of many sorts.
Hillary is notorious for shady dealings with Indians, such as trading casino rights for campaign contributions. Big-time Democrat donor and Hillary fundraiser Thomas Wilmot of Rochester, N.Y. also happens to be a major Indian casino developer.
Did Hillary leverage her backroom Indian deals into votes? We may never know.
In any case, computerized vote-counting has all but rendered "dead-Indian" voting obsolete. High-tech vote fraud is done on keyboards and leaves no paper trail.
Whatever happened in 2000, the future will likely offer worse. Americans need to wake up and smell the coffee, while we still have a chance.
