The following story was written and reported by the Native Sun News.

PINE RIDGE, SOUTH DAKOTA –– Incumbent President Theresa Two Bulls and five-time former President John Yellow Bird Steele are the unofficial winners in the Primary Election. Two Bulls garnered 771 votes to Steele’s 528.

For the office of vice president, Thomas Poor Bear with 809 votes edged out Myron Pourier with 706 votes.

Francis Pumpkin Seed, Chairman of the Election Commission said late last night, “The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Primary Election was a tremendous success. We used electronic voting for the first time and the voters proved they could adapt.” He added that the turnout on the reservation was between 50 to 60 percent.

Sedrick Young Bear called the contract crew of David McEwen and Randall Forest of Automated Election Services of Rio Rancho, N.M. “a bottleneck that has to change.”

He said, “It went well in the districts but these guys are a bottleneck. They’re going to have to fix that for the General Election because they only had two guys here and they should have had 4 to 5 people.”

Native Sun News’ Randall Howell was at election headquarters until after midnight tallying the results of the election and sending them to the main office in Rapid City. Here is the list of Tribal Council Representatives from all of the districts:

PRESIDENT
Theresa Two Bulls 771
John Yellow Bird Steele 528
VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas Poor Bear 809
Myron Pourier 706

EAGLE NEST DISTRICT
Council Representative
Jim Meeks 83
Ruth Brown 78
Marvis Bad Cob 64
Sylvester Two Bulls 58

LACREEK DISTRICT
Council Representative
Craig Dillon 132
Donn Fire Thunder 78
Cora White Horse 76
Tracy Jones-Swallow 71

MEDICINE ROOT DISTRICT
Council Representative
Austin Watkins Sr. 150
Joseph Rosales 101
James “Toby” Big Boy 97
Anne Apple 93

OGLALA DISTRICT
Council Representative
Valerie Janis 101
Paul Little 85
Deborah J. Rooks-Cook 74
Floyd Brings Plenty 65

PASS CREEK DISTRICT
Council Representative
James Cross 15
Lydia Bear Killer 15
Elaine Martinez 10

PINE RIDGE VILLAGE
Council Representative
Irving “Irv” Provost 231
Ella “John” Carlow 213
Robin Tapio 201
Carol Crazy Thunder O’Rourke 189

PORCUPINE DISTRICT
Council Representative
Beverly A. Tuttle 109
Troy “Scott” Weston 93
David Pourier 92
Philip Good Crow 68

WAKPAMNI DISTRICT
Council Representative
Dan Rodriguez 175
Sonia Little Hawk Weston 151
Debbie Blue Bird 132
Tom Conroy 124

WOUNDED KNEE DISTRICT
Council Representative
Kevin Yellowbird Steele 108
Eugenio White Hawk 93
Kathy Janis 80
Michael Her Many Horses 73