Now Native American voting rights are under attack in the Dakotas.

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They see it all slipping away so they're dragging out every goddamned unpatriotic, un-American, vile tactic they can think of to deter/prevent us from voting. It will not work. We are determined to take back our country.

Backlash over North Dakota voter ID law could rally Native Americans

Tribes — with celebrity help — are mobilizing members ahead of midterms

By Carrie Levine 8 hours, 5 minutes ago Updated: 7 hours, 34 minutes ago

Terry Yellow Fat shares his home on the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota with his wife, his son and his nephew.

All four of them, he says, have different street addresses on their North Dakota driver’s licenses, even though they live in the same house — a sign of how complicated a new state voter identification requirement for a residential address could be for residents of the state’s reservations.

Yellow Fat says he went and got an official residential street address assigned a year or so ago through the county’s 911 coordinator, but when he tried to use it to receive a package, the deliveryman couldn’t find his house. Instead, he told Yellow Fat the address had sent him to a local bar a few blocks away.

Now, Yellow Fat, 69, a retired teacher and school superintendent, is not sure what to do about voting in next month’s general election, which features a hotly contested U.S. Senate race between incumbent Democrat Heidi Heitkamp and Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer. Yellow Fat’s license has a residential street address, as required to vote, but he knows it isn’t the one he was assigned by the 911 coordinator — and he’s worried about using it.

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Prairie Rose Seminole of North Dakota Native Vote stands with Mark Ruffalo and Billy Ray Cyrus at a Stand-N-Vote concert at Turtle Mountain Community College.

Mark Ruffalo via Facebook

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/10/30/22398/north-dakota-voter-id-law-backlash

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Now they're trying to tell Native Americans in Sioux County SD that their votes will be disqualified on the basis of the *color of the ink* they use to vote. The Republicans hate and fear democracy. Crush Trump's fake Americans on Nov 6.
5:39 PM - Oct 30, 2018

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1. What do you mean now?

The Retrumplican party is a criminal enterprise that has been doing this for years... decades even.

Retrumplicans must be stomped out

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2. I recently saw a Native American woman wearing a Hillary for Prison shirt

and a Trump button at a doctors office. Our local tribe is the Nez Perce, but she may not be. I don't know any of them that are right-wingers, but there must be a few.

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3. She has no clue

But few who vote Republican do.

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4. Color of Ink???? - puleezzz...from article Fast Company 10/19/18 Daily Kos effort

The online effort, spearheaded by Daily Kos and spread through Twitter, was initially supposed to raise $100,000 but the goal has since been reset at $400,000. By early Friday , nearly 20,000 people had given nearly $450,000.


That money will go to North Dakota Native Vote, a voters’ rights group that’s affiliated with Western Native Voice in Montana and is now trying to fix the situation. The upheld law includes a requirement that all state residents present documentation of their residential address at the polls. That excludes post office box addresses, which many Native Americans use because they live on reservations and the post office doesn’t deliver to their more remote home addresses. If your ID has a PO box on it, it won’t be valid. But a tribal ID is valid.

So North Dakota Native Vote is attempting to fix the situation by providing updated tribal ID cards or address verifications to members of the affected tribes, according to the Daily Kos campaign post. By Thursday morning, the group had fielded a six-person team to coordinate their efforts that it hopes to expand in the coming days, given that it’s just a few weeks from the midterm elections.

Another story from Newscenter daily

In North Dakota, Native Americans Try to Turn an ID Law to Their Advantage. October 30, 2018 admin Politics 0. ... trying to get a guarantee that ballots would not be thrown out because of ink color. On Friday, Lee Ann Oliver in the secretary of state’s office told The Times that both blue and black were acceptable. ..

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5. What is about Standing Rock?

a lot of history being made there. The past meets the present with injustices and indignities for the original peoples of this country.

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6. No kidding. They've been poisoning our people for centuries. DAPL is just the latest atrocity.

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7. And now they essentially want to take back

the right to vote. After everything else, it’s no surprise.
I pray that “Karma” is real, and there is justice in the universe. Thank you

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8. Not many people know this, but Native Americans didn't get the right to vote until 1924,

four years after women won the right. It's been a struggle ever since 1492.