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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:10 PM May 2016

Native Americans move to frontlines in battle over voting rights

Source: Reuters

Native Americans move to frontlines in battle over voting rights
By Mica Rosenberg,
Reuters 12 hours ago


By Mica Rosenberg

BELCOURT, North Dakota (Reuters) - Elvis Norquay, a member of the Chippewa Indian tribe, has lived most of his 58 years on North Dakota’s remote Turtle Mountain reservation and says he’s never had a problem voting.

That was before 2014, when he hitched a ride with a friend to cast a ballot in local and congressional elections and was turned away. Embarrassed, he asked why he couldn’t vote. He was told he lacked proper ID under new state requirements. He has no phone, no current driver’s license and his tribal ID lacks a street address.

“When we left, my friend said, ‘that’s not right’,” said Norquay, who has lived on disability since 2002 in a rural county near the Canadian border.

Norquay is among a growing number of Native Americans embroiled in court battles over changes to voting laws that could influence the outcome of some tight races in the November 2016 presidential and congressional elections.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/native-americans-move-frontlines-battle-over-voting-rights-121139275.html

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Native Americans move to frontlines in battle over voting rights (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2016 OP
There's something deeply wrong with a party that stops Americans from voting IronLionZion May 2016 #1
mission accomplished KT2000 May 2016 #2

IronLionZion

(45,256 posts)
1. There's something deeply wrong with a party that stops Americans from voting
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:43 PM
May 2016

in order to win elections. It's disgusting the GOP puts in these modern day Jim Crow laws to keep poor people down.

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
2. mission accomplished
Tue May 31, 2016, 09:53 PM
May 2016

for the republicans. I have to winder why the Democrats in state and federal government were not making a big issue out of this when these restrictions were making their way through state houses. They could have explained what they were up to and how they are essentially removing certain people from the voting rolls. I did not heat opposition to this from the Dems.

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