North Dakota's Racist Voter ID Law Is Already Backfiring- article from The Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-dakotas-racist-voter-id-law-is-already-backfiringDEMOCRACY AT WORK!’
North Dakota’s Racist Voter ID Law Is Already Backfiring
Jay Michaelson
11.01.18
In response, the state’s Republican-dominated legislature passed a new law that seems specifically intended to make it harder for Native Americans to vote. In addition to a strict ID requirement, the law requires all voters to provide proof of a residential street address—something many Natives who live on reservations simply do not have.
Large numbers of Native Americans use post office boxes to receive mail and live on unmarked and unsigned streets. Many others live with various family members. Still others have no idea that their streets even have names.
In total, about 5,000 Native Americans lack the required voter ID—larger than the electoral margin in 2016.
Needless to say, there were no documented instances of voter fraud involving people without street addresses.
“They didn’t need an address when they took our children and rounded them up into boarding schools,” Chase Iron Eyes, a Native American lawyer who lost a congressional bid in 2016, told NBC News. “And they didn’t need an address when they conscripted us to fight in the military and make a worthy and honorable sacrifice. But now they need our address when we want to exercise our right to vote.”
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Native Americans have a plan to defeat it at the polls.
First, a coalition of groups led by the Lakota People’s Law Project and the national Native American group Four Directions have been furiously helping people get proper IDs free of charge. According to the Associated Press, they’ve helped more than 2,000 people get them.
The New York Times reported that one band of Chippewa printed so many IDs that the machine overheated and started melting the cards.
“We’re at our best in crisis,” Phyllis Young, an organizer on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation—made famous in 2016 when thousands of young people took up the cause to stop a pipeline from being built near tribal lands—told the AP.
Young said the GOP’s overt voter suppression "is only making us more aware of our rights, more energized, and more likely to vote this November."
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Tribes participating in the effort include the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Spirit Lake Nation, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Second, Four Directions is helping tribes create residential addresses where none have existed before. Using satellite imagery, voters can point to the locations of their homes on a map and are assigned unique address identifiers—even on the spot. On Election Day, tribal officials will be stationed at every polling site in every reservation in the state, with tribal letterhead in hand, ready to assign addresses.
“This is democracy at work!” Four Directions tweeted on Oct. 30. “Voter engagement is high. We have DOUBLED Absentee votes at Standing Rock as of 3:47 pm today.”
Celebrities including Mark Ruffalo and Dave Matthews have also gotten involved, with the Stand-N-Vote initiative, which hopes to capitalize on resentment against the voting restrictions, and the national awareness of the Standing Rock Sioux, to enable more Native Americans to vote.
“This is democracy at work!”
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Republicans can't win anything without cheating.
The fact that this example is so publicized & about a State that loves its privacy from the rest of the noisemakers, is just the damned beautiful thing about it.
Even obscure NDakota can no longer hide its dirty deeds.
Best of luck to these proud people & bring it all home for Sen Heitkamp.
VOTE BLUE 💙
Exactly what they are telling the Tribes.
Love this news!
Thanks, Bfd. 
Jinx, you owe me a coke...
Aaaaah, also Great Minds Think Alike!
You owe me a coke too!!
and it comes down to this.. shameful America..
Bravo for the ingenuity of our American Indians.
What's small to us is mighty big to them.
Honestly, they have been thru so much.
Look at the relentless stand they took against the Pipeline, aptly referred to by their ancestors in a long ago forewarning, that the danger to their Tribe's existance would come from "the black snake".
And now this suppression of their votes.
May they succeed on Tuesday
We need to fight these assholes trying to suppress the vote.
.... they should be able to vote NOW! I don't get how the court thinks it can deny voters their privilege if the registration with ID and P.O. Box address was accepted.
However the North Dakota judge did exactly that, and it has been posted on another thread here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211355444
This just absolutely sucks and it can't be legal.
Thank You! I hope they win!
In many, many cases with covert or even overt GOP actions, public awareness the the key to countering their corruption.
I'm proud of our Native American brothers and sisters for this valiant effort....... .......
