If you look at a political map of the U.S., you will notice small areas of blue in a sea of red in North and South Dakota and Montana. Those are counties with Indian reservations. Indians vote overwhelmingly Democratic.
North Dakota decided to do something about that. It passed a law that voters cannot use a P.O. Box when they register but must have a street address. Thousands of Indians on reservations do not have a street address or lack documentation. Those Indians will be disenfranchised.
Since Sen. Heidi Heitkamp won her last election by 3000 votes, that should insure a Republican victory. The new Republican philosophy is: If you can’t win fairly, cheat.
Perhaps they could create an address by using the Post office as there address with an additional number to ID themselves, such as; 1111-1234 Road. The dash number would be there PO Box number. The PO would place there mail in there PO Box. That way it a road number. Beat the system in a way at there own game.
ReplyDeleteThe other way would be for the Rez to assign arbitrary road names. I hope that something can be done. The N.D. legislature, of course, should be ashamed of itself.
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