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Thousands of Native Americans lost right to vote in North Dakota in November

Amelia

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You can strip 5000 Native Americans (and tens of thousands of other citizens) of their right to vote in September -- that's not too close to the election -- but you can't restore their right to vote in October -- that IS too close to the election to restore what shouldn't have been taken away.

The Catch-22 that just stripped Native Americans of their voting rights in North Dakota

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) won her 2012 race by less than 3,000 votes — in no small part due to support from Native Americans. Not long thereafter, North Dakota’s Republican legislature passed a law that effectively strips many of these Native Americans of their voting rights.
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The law was blocked in April. Then in September, the Republicans on an appellate panel said it could go into effect. But a further appeal in October was rebuffed on the grounds that it was too close to the election to restore rights which were taken away just a month earlier.


I am having trouble coming up with words to describe how sad and disgusted my former party is making me.
 
Not surprised, irritated of course but not surprised.
 
Amelia said:
You can strip 5000 Native Americans (and tens of thousands of other citizens) of their right to vote in September -- that's not too close to the election -- but you can't restore their right to vote in October -- that IS too close to the election to restore what shouldn't have been taken away.

The Catch-22 that just stripped Native Americans of their voting rights in North Dakota



The law was blocked in April. Then in September, the Republicans on an appellate panel said it could go into effect. But a further appeal in October was rebuffed on the grounds that it was too close to the election to restore rights which were taken away just a month earlier.


I am having trouble coming up with words to describe how sad and disgusted my former party is making me.
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The correct people to blame are those who run the states legal system......6 years into this issue they still cant get it right?

That is not acceptable.
 
Amelia said:
You can strip 5000 Native Americans (and tens of thousands of other citizens) of their right to vote in September -- that's not too close to the election -- but you can't restore their right to vote in October -- that IS too close to the election to restore what shouldn't have been taken away.

The Catch-22 that just stripped Native Americans of their voting rights in North Dakota



The law was blocked in April. Then in September, the Republicans on an appellate panel said it could go into effect. But a further appeal in October was rebuffed on the grounds that it was too close to the election to restore rights which were taken away just a month earlier.


I am having trouble coming up with words to describe how sad and disgusted my former party is making me.
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I smell a lawsuit. Might complicate things in North Dakota.
They'd better get it sorted before 2020. Each one of those voters that aren't allowed to vote counts for 2 in Texas or California.
 
Amelia said:
You can strip 5000 Native Americans (and tens of thousands of other citizens) of their right to vote in September -- that's not too close to the election -- but you can't restore their right to vote in October -- that IS too close to the election to restore what shouldn't have been taken away.

The Catch-22 that just stripped Native Americans of their voting rights in North Dakota



The law was blocked in April. Then in September, the Republicans on an appellate panel said it could go into effect. But a further appeal in October was rebuffed on the grounds that it was too close to the election to restore rights which were taken away just a month earlier.


I am having trouble coming up with words to describe how sad and disgusted my former party is making me.
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The title of this thread is a blatant, indisputable lie. Nobody in North Dakota lost their right to vote.

We had this discussion on this board a few weeks ago, when it was discovered that the ND Secretary of State's office came up with a solution for folks who had no residential street address:

In a letter to tribal leaders, the secretary of state’s office wrote that any voter without a residential address could contact their county’s 911 coordinator, describe the location of their home and, quickly and at no cost, be assigned an address that the coordinator could confirm in an official letter. The voter could then either use that letter to obtain new identification or present it at the polls alongside an ID card that would not have been sufficient on its own.
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All anyone without a residential address has to do is make a call and in about an hour, have a residential address.

Why is it that the left is always so compelled to lie to advance their agenda?

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