BREAKING: Native Americans push back on North Dakota voter ID rule, announcing in a new statement they will issue street address documents at polling locations to members who need them. pic.twitter.com/tukNkgrV18
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) October 18, 2018
With North Dakota's voter ID law in place for the election, Standing Rock Sioux leaders say they're in crisis mode trying to get tribal members what they need for November 6. https://t.co/1zr5QnU4eQ
— KMOT-TV (@KMOT_TV) October 16, 2018
… With three weeks to election day tribal leaders have scheduled a forum to help people find their addresses, and get them new tribal IDs. Chairman Mike Faith thinks this won’t suppress the vote.
“I think it’s going to be a positive because it’s upsetting people to the point of wanting to go to the polls,” said Faith.
“People who’ve never had IDs will have IDs for the first time and so that’s a real plus,” said Young.
In the last 4 presidential elections, voter turnout in Sioux county has ranged from 1,100 to 1,300.
If you are a tribal member with question, there is a meeting in Sioux County about the voter IDs. For more information, call 701-854-8500.
The Secretary of State website has a link for ID questions here: https://vip.sos.nd.gov/civics101.aspx?ptlhPKID=126&ptlPKID=7
A series of amazing possible firsts (governor, Congress, lt. gov…) for Native American women candidates seeking historic wins in November across the country from @joeheim https://t.co/A7UMzE7ZIO #standingrock #nativevote18
— Arelis R. Hernández (@arelisrhdz) October 15, 2018
Deb Haaland has known a lot of firsts in her rise through New Mexico’s Democratic Party ranks. In 2014, she was the first Native American woman from a major party to run for statewide office here when she sought to be lieutenant governor. After that bid failed, she became the first Native American woman in the country to lead a state political party. On Nov. 6, barring a shocking upset, the 57-year-old member of the Laguna Pueblo Tribe, could become the first Native American woman elected to the U.S. Congress…
Haaland’s bid for Congress, in the strongly Democratic 1st District, has soaked up most of the attention, but 2018 has been a breakout political year for Native American women across the country with “far more than ever running,” according to Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country Today, who has been tracking races. Another Native American woman, Kansas Democrat Sharice Davids, is also running for a House seat. More than a hundred women elsewhere have taken part in races at local and state levels, an unprecedented level of participation that has produced hashtags — #SheRepresents, #NativeVote18 — and a wide range of candidates that include Democrats and Republicans, but also Green Party, Independent and Libertarian candidates.
Though the emergence of so many Native American women running for office has seemed to come out of the blue, it is in many ways the result of seeds planted over the past decade at the community and regional levels.
“The narrative had been that Native Americans were gone, that we’re invisible, that we’re part of history,” said Jodi Gillette, a member of the Standing Rock Tribe who served as special adviser for Native American issues to President Obama. “Well, we’ve been here all along trying to be seen and trying to be relevant and trying to find ways to address our issues. I rejoice in the fact that we’ve got the visibility and are positioned to help lead and not just be seen, but to represent.”…
Kansas GOP official lashes out at Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids: “your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian will be sent back packing to the reservation” https://t.co/3iHSDoAk3P
— Ruth H. Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) October 9, 2018
Sharice Davids by 8 with poll nearing completion https://t.co/NmC5nN6mN1 pic.twitter.com/U6VWhkeAVX
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) October 18, 2018
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