see how they tried to rig the Native American vote

[donsu]

http://www.democrats.com/

GOP Tries to Suppress Native American Vote

"A plastic sign outside a polling place in Andes Central High School on the Yankton Sioux reservation was clear and concise. 'Photo ID required,' it read. The only problem, said Charon Asetoyer of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center in Lake Andes, SD, was that the sign was illegal. Sitting in a conference room decorated with a buffalo skull, hand-sewn medicine bags, and a poster that says 'Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,' Asetoyer explains how the law doesn't, in fact, require voters to have a photo ID. If you don't have one, you can sign a personal-identification affidavit. 'The whole issue around denying Indian people the right to vote because they don't have a photo ID puts in people's minds, 'They're not going to let me vote, anyway, so why should I even go to vote?'' she said, describing what happened at the city election and at a June 1 special congressional election. 'It's an intentional act to disenfranchise the Native American vote.'"

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8412

Battle of Little Big Vote

Welcome to South Dakota, where Republicans tried to impose a poll tax to suppress the Indian vote.


A plastic sign outside a polling place in Andes Central High School on the Yankton Sioux reservation was clear and concise. "Photo ID required," it read.

The only problem, said Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center in Lake Andes, South Dakota, was that the sign was illegal.

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Nobody knows how widespread the problem was on June 1.But at least 21 Native Americans were turned away from the polls because they didn't have a photo ID, says Bret Healy, executive director of the Four Directions Committee, a nonprofit voter-registration organization in Rapid City, South Dakota. He's collected signed statements from all of them.

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Chris Nelson, South Dakota's secretary of state, says state officials are trying to fix the problem by educating poll workers about the law.
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21 here, 21 there..................

[yellowcanine]

1. "officials are trying to fix the problem by educating poll workers"

How about arresting the anti-democracy agitators who violated the law by putting up the signs? Give them a big stiff fine and a little time in the pokey and I guarantee that would "fix the problem." After all this is a violation of FEDERAL law, no?

[AspenRose]

2. Please see my sig line

If you know of ANYONE who even HINTS at the potential for voter fraud, have them call this number to get information and volunteer to keep watchful eyes on the polling places.