Indian Country Today shared this graphic from Standing Rock Sioux tribal authorities which shows members how to navigate the maze Republican North Dakotans have set up to keep them from voting. By demanding that voters use a street address -- something many Standing Rock Sioux on the reservation do not have -- the dominant GOP aims to disenfranchise potential Democratic voters. That many hoops to jump will almost certainly reduce Native voting.
In a strong article on the history of racist voter suppression,
Michael Tomasky sums up:
Today’s Republican Party is not simply trying to win elections. It is simultaneously trying to rewrite the rules—gerrymandering and voter suppression are crucial to this effort—so that it never loses a federal election again.
Will we the people let them succeed?
Street address? That’s ridiculous! How many places don’t have street addresse — we lived in a couple of them when I was young though not on a reservation. If anyone should have a vote, it should be the American Indian.
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