A group of Native Americans in North Dakota marched to a polling place Tuesday claiming that the state could not prevent them from voting just because they did not have a residential address on their identification cards.
“North Dakota — you can’t do that,” about 70 young Native Americans chanted while marching to a local polling place in Belcourt, N.D., ABC News reported.
About 70 young Native Americans marched to a polling place on a reservation near Belcourt chanting “North Dakota — you can’t do that,” following an ongoing dispute over a law that requires residential addresses on ID in order to vote. https://t.co/wzviquCV1b #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/JIuxBlxa71
— ABC News (@ABC) November 6, 2018
Native Americans in North Dakota, especially those on reservations, are facing voter suppression due to state policies that say they must obtain a state-issued or tribal identification card with their street address in order to vote.
Many Native American citizens have their address listed as the post office box where they retrieve their mail.
Around 5,000 of these citizens could be turned away at their polling places when they present their current ID. Absentee ballots in the state also require that a home address be listed, not a post office box.
