From Missoulian:

However, at least one Big Horn County observer was asked to leave a Crow Reservation polling place on election night 2006, according to a signed affidavit by the observer that is part of a dismissed federal lawsuit alleging elections fraud.

Terry Coddens, a poll observer at the Crow Agency polling place for two predominantly American Indian precincts, signed a sworn affidavit in November 2006 saying an election judge asked him to leave shortly after the polls had closed at 8 p.m., but before election workers had counted the ballots.

State law stipulates that election observers must be able to witness the counting of the votes and the recording of the results, said Bowen Greenwood, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office.

Coddens also wrote that election judges did not secure ballot boxes with locks.

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