Big news for Native Americans in North Dakota: The state agreed to a settlement that ensures their right to vote even if they don't have an ID showing a residential address.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/north-dakota-voter-id.html …
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The state will then have to notify the voter and the voter's tribe of the official address, which the tribe can use to issue ID for future elections. The "mark your home on a map" option basically formalizes an emergency, last-minute method tribes used in 2018. 6/
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North Dakota also agreed to distribute free IDs on reservations before each election, and to "work in good faith" to secure funding to reimburse the tribes up to $5,000 apiece for administrative costs they incur in issuing addresses and IDs. 7/
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As I wrote in 2018, the tribes did an impressive job getting members IDs in a very short amount of time. But it was expensive in both money and admin resources. One tribe printed so many IDs that the machine overheated and started melting the cards. 8/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/us/politics/north-dakota-voter-id.html …
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The settlement is “a victory for Indian Country,”
@ojsemans of@4directionsvote told me today. "We let the state of North Dakota keep some face. But all in all, what we said from the very beginning was right."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/north-dakota-voter-id.html …Afficher cette discussion
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.why can't their tribal centre or admin office be the collective address and the office be responsible for verification?
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