Update: Navajos, Apaches Working to Deny Trump Arizona's 11 Electoral Votes

[Bayard]

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Navajo Democrats meet at the Kayenta, AZ, Chapter House to work on plan to defeat Trump.


Navajo and Apache Tribal members are using new technology to systematically canvass their Reservations -- which are the size of West Virginia and Connecticut – to turn out the voters needed to defeat Trump and elect Mark Kelly to the U.S. Senate.

Without Arizona, Trump has no path to victory in the Electoral College.

Field teams on large Western reservations have been handicapped in the past because of a lack of addresses and geo-codes. They are used in off-Reservation areas to produce canvassing maps needed for effective door-to-door voter registration and get-out-the-vote work.

The situation on reservations changed dramatically when Navajos began using Google Plus Codes to identify every home on the Utah portion of their land. They used the fine-grained canvassing technique to win two of the three seats on the San Juan County, Utah, County Commission, and then used the method again to defeat an anti-Native referendum to change the county’s form of government. The successful Utah strategy is now being used in Arizona because its 11 Electoral Votes could determine the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

How Plus Codes Work
If you find your home, or another building, on Google Maps, you can tap the location to drop a pin on the map. The pin will have a code, such as 43FG+44, which can be Googled to find the location. Somewhat similar to telephone area codes, if you are a long ways from the location, you may need an additional identifier, such as Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona, in case this same “short code” is used elsewhere in the world.

Teams are working to locate every dwelling on the Navajo and Apache Reservations in Arizona and make sure the residents are registered to vote. Traditional addressing systems miss many Natives for two reasons: (1) The work of rural addressing on tribal lands is moving at a glacial pace and is far from complete. (2) Many Tribal members live in storage sheds, tents or even traditional brush huts that are denied regular addresses because they do not meet even minimal building code requirements.

More good info at link. I can't find the DU discussion we were having a few days ago about this problem of having no address. This seems like a workable solution. So, I assume rethugs will do their best to shoot it down. The bold face emphasis is mine.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913555/-Update-Navajos-Apaches-Working-to-Deny-Trump-Arizona-s-11-Electoral-Votes?detail=emaildkre

[raging moderate]

1. YES! YES! GO, APACHES AND NAVAJOS!

YOU CAN DO THIS! YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT!

[Duppers]

3. AGREED!!

Yay. 👍

[KewlKat]

2. Wouldn't this work on ALL reservations? We need to repeat this in all tribes.

I read something about the Dakotas recently where they have no addresses so they can’t register.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Rachel Maddow did several episodes addressing the situation in the Dakotas...

Good to see this happening, so that the people get their right to vote supported.

Not sure how vital AZ is in the grand scheme, but every state we can move blue is a good thing.

Trump won by razor thin margins. We should be able to GOTV and overcome that in 2020.

[not fooled]

6. Good

especially because the pukes who control the AZ statehouse did this:

The circumstances for these Navajo was made considerably worse in 2016 when the Republican-dominated Arizona legislature passed a law prohibiting so-called “ballot harvesting.” Upheld by a federal court last month, the law disallows anyone other than the voter, a household member, relative, or caregiver from delivering a completed ballot to a mailbox or election office. While ostensibly designed as a means of reducing voter fraud, the legislation outlaws professional and amateur get-out-the-vote campaigns to increase voter turnout by making casting ballots easier:

“When people don’t get mail at their homes, how is this going to work?” asked Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, the faculty director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University’s law school. “The census data shows that only one in four homes on the reservation have access to cars and there’s not great infrastructure or public transportation, so it’s likely someone else is going to bring your ballot back to town. Are those people going to be felons?”

[link:http://redgreenandblue.org/2018/06/26/nearly-century-native-americans-got-vote-suppressing-right-continues-problem/|]

[Dopers_Greed]

9. AZ is critical. We need every electoral vote we can get.

Trump is on track to win the EC and lose the popular again.

Not even to mention the Senate race there.

[mwooldri]

11. Agreed ... Plus there's another system for addresses.

What 3 Words. Generates a 3 word sentence based on a 3 meter by 3 meter square.

Examples: Bigger.drama.dollar is where El Moron presently has an encampment and needs to be removed from there ASAP, and sent back to impairee.lows.transitional ... Stays.same.really is the US Capitol building. Bolstered.clad.ticket is where I'm picking up a trailer tomorrow.

The UK emergency services also use it as a means of identifying location, so if you call 999 and say you need help and you're at hiking.mining.digs the London Ambulance Service would be able to find where on the Mall outside Buckingham Palace you are.

No reason why this can't be used as an official address for anyone.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R

[Kali]

7. lot of repuke Indians here

but good on the Democratic ones for getting active

[Demovictory9]

8. kick

[iluvtennis]

10. Excellent news....so tired of all of the voter suppression by the GOPers. nt

[EveHammond13]

12. another good reason to defeat McSally

[former9thward]

13. "Without Arizona, Trump has no path to victory in the Electoral College."

Uhh no... Trump won 306 to 232 in electoral votes. He did not need AZ.

[volstork]

15. Yes. Unfortunately,

that statement does not seem accurate.

I'm happy to be proven wrong.

[aeromanKC]

19. When he loses PA he will!!

And MI I might also add. (most likely WI too) BUT, PA for sure. Thanks Joe!!

[Turin_C3PO]

24. The point is

that if Trump is doing badly enough to lose AZ, he’ll likely also lose the other important swing states. Losing Arizona would most definitely be the icing on the cake.

[rickford66]

14. Custer .. err I mean Trump is going to ask ...

where the f*** did all the Indians come from?

[Liberal In Texas]

16. What you mean we white man.

Old joke.

[IronLionZion]

17. And Republicans are working to deport Apache and Navajo

back where they came from. Hmm...where was that?

Native Shmative. If these people were Americans, they would be white.

So of course they go all in on voter suppression.

[Hekate]

18. Blessings and all good wishes for their success

[Totally Tunsie]

20. Now if we could just get the cowboys too...

[DFW]

21. I talked briefly with Mark Kelly today

No, we don‘t consult every Friday. He was wondering if I could send another contribution. I was with a mutual acquaintance in Washington, so I had to call him back. He is in a good financial position against McSally, but Arizona Democrats are under no illusions about Republican voter suppression efforts. They know it is in place and they know it will happen. But because they know about the Republican voter fraud efforts, and they are being implemented, they are also taking counter-measures, and intensifying GOTV efforts specifically set to counter Republican suppression of voter rights.

[OnDoutside]

29. With those voter suppression tactics in mind, have you read Rick Wilson's new book ?

If not, I would highly recommend it, and actually I got the audible audio book because it's actually Rick's voice reading the book. Do you think his book/views would be ignored BECAUSE it's him, amongst the Democratic hierarchy ? I thought his suggestions made perfect sense (some were downright devious), not least the notion of flooding key districts with anti vote suppression lawyers.

[colsohlibgal]

22. This Is All Hands On Deck

We need to sweep the swing States and rout this abominable horrible person to thwart this attempted autocratic coup.

Somewhere in Hell Nixon is happy that at least he is not the most evil corrupt person ever to be President.

[Mike 03]

23. Excellent!

[NewJeffCT]

25. when Democrats thought they had a chance in 2016 in Arizona

Jan Brewer basically mocked Democratic efforts to get Latin and Native Americans out to vote because their turnout rates are generally much lower than it is for White and African American voters. (White & AA voters turn out around 80+% of registered voters, while Latin, Asian and Native American voters are typically a bit under 60%)

[wryter2000]

26. That's wonderful!

I’m going to work on my brother in Arizona to make sure he votes for the Dem (and for Mark Kelly). His Nader-voting wife might be a lost cause. I know she won’t vote for Trump, though.

[LakeArenal]

27. Thanks. Good luck!

[we can do it]

28. How can we help them?

[Bayard]

30. I think they may take donations through ActBlue