North Dakota Indians win one

North Dakota had passed a voter suppression law that said you couldn’t vote unless you had a street address.  This rule disenfranchised many North Dakota Indians who lived on reservations where an address might be “the 2nd yellow house on the left past the stop sign.”  Mail would be delivered to a P.O. box, but that wasn’t good enough.

Earlier this month the North Dakota election officials reached an agreement with the Spirit Lake and Standing Rock Sioux to allow Indians to vote with just a P.O. box.  The agreement resolved two law suits and is a major victory for Indian Country.

Occasionally we win one.

For the full story see Maggie Astor, “Voting Rights Victory for N. Dakota Tribes,”  New York Times, (Feb. 14, 2020), p. A16.