Posted on 03/24/2022 9:45:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Local, state and federal officials must do more to ensure Native Americans facing persistent, longstanding and deep-rooted barriers to voting have equal access to ballots, a White House report released Thursday said.
Native Americans and Alaska Natives vote at lower rates than the national average but have been a key constituency in tight races and states with large Native populations. A surge in voter turnout among tribal members in Arizona, for example, helped lead Joe Biden to victory in the state that hadn’t supported a Democrat in a White House contest since 1996.
The Biden administration’s report comes a year after he issued an executive order promoting voting rights and establishing a steering committee to look at particular barriers to voting in Indigenous communities. Those include state laws and local practices that disenfranchise Indigenous voters, unequal access to early voting and reliance on a mail system that is unreliable, the report stated.
The White House highlighted efforts within federal agencies that include the Interior Department working to designate tribal colleges in New Mexico and Kansas as voter registration centers. The Treasury Department will provide voter education through its income tax assistance centers, the White House said.
And the U.S. Department of Justice has more than doubled its voting rights enforcement to ensure election officials are complying with federal law, senior administration officials said.
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THEY HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS EVERYBODY ELSE DOES................
Okay, I’ll bite. What is prohibiting Native Americans from voting?
They take beads and booze...Add an Eagle Feather and some weed...and you’re in like Flynn.
I’m sure Psychojewea is on board with this.
I can guess that the White House and DOJ will recommend “Native Americans” will need lots of unmonitored drop-boxes, lengthy mail-in ballot period, ballot harvesting, no IDs, no signatures, and no registration
You know, for equity and stuff.
Early ballot harvesting. Amazing.
Virtue Grandstanding is more important than eating.
Indian Reservations are notorious for being hotbeds for vote fraud. (ALWAYS in favor of Dems)
Elections are run by state, county and city officials. Most Indians don’t live on reservations, but on the reservations, tribal authorities would run things.
So now the Great White Father in Washington wants to suppress tribal sovereignty in elections, on the grounds that our little red brothers are not competent to run elections for themselves.
—Yeah—some years ago 3000 “late” ballots from Pine Ridge “won” the senate race for Tim Johnson over John Thune in SD-—voter turnout must have been okay—
Great Father in Washington helpum red man to vote.
What is prohibiting Native Americans from voting?
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Drugs, alcohol and their ruling families.
Sounds like they are planning on using reservations to steal elections.
Translation: reservations must implement mail-in voting fraud to bypass “barriers” like injuns not caring who wins elections in white man’s government.
What are those barriers to voting??????? Does the White Man set up huge fences with armed guards near the voting booths? They aren’t going to say what the barriers are because they want us to do the automatic guilt response and blame ourselves for their failings.
Is it perhaps that they don’t consider themselves American citizens? Their ancestors’ lands were stolen and they were set up as a sovereign nation within a sovereign nation so they don’t know who the hell they are.
Fire Water!
Yes they are being prevented from voting just like a freakin pipeline is getting them raped like AOC says.
Yes! Please send 100,000 mail in ballots to the nearest DNC voting center so we can vote for our stupid indian, er, our noble native Americans!
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