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 sure can be. Just ask Lisa Murkowski, Senator from Alaska, about her write-in campaign in 2010.
U.S. Department of Justice has more than doubled its voting rights enforcement to ensure election officials are complying.
Indians trade beads for vote democrats use bigger carrot on stick.
The only thing that interferes with Native American voting is being too drunk to climb on the Democrat buses that ferry them around to all the polling stations.
The tribal gov.s are corrupt and extremely nepotistic. This report is BS. It’s just biden’s way of stuffing the ballot box in states with large tribes.
They are die hard communists. Are they not voting enough for them?
I believe what the White House is trying to do is to ensure "a surge in voter turnout among tribal members is Arizona" doesn't raise red-flag in future elections. The last voting surge certainly wasn't an anomaly or evidence of voter fraud. It was perfectly normal as will all future Native American voting surges.
The WH is making sure they have cover for future surges.
Exactly.🤔
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