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Related: About this forumNative votes gerrymandered
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/23/native-americans-arizona-redistricting-congressional-mapRedrawn Arizona congressional map drains Native American voting power
Tribal areas have been swept into a new majority Republican district where GOP candidates ignore Native issues
For Native Americans in Arizona, the recently redistricted US House map will mean a loss of political power once protected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, leaving the states solidly Democratic tribal areas with the prospect of a fringe-Republican congressional representative.
Democrats supported by Indigenous voters won every election for the past ten years in a district drawn expressly to empower Native American voters by a redistricting commission that relied on input from the areas various tribes in 2011.
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Native votes gerrymandered (Original Post)
cbabe
May 2022
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. DAMN! that sucks.... why is this considered LEGAL?
Asking for a friend.......
walkingman
(7,507 posts)2. America has broken tribal promises forever - our treatment of native Americans is despicable.
Doc Sportello
(7,454 posts)3. AZ tribal members voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in 2020
One big reason Biden won the state. Then, the repugs do this.