since basically the day she was first elected. their plan, their mission was to make sure heitkamp would never win statewide election in their state again. and that plan started with a bill, we've talked about it a ton on this show, right after heitkamp was elected with a ton of rock solid support from native americans, republicans in the north dakota state legislature pushed through a bill that made it a new law in the state that in order to vote, you would need an i.d. with a street address on it. what that bill was quite clearly designed to do was to choke off the native american vote in north dakota. thousands of native americans in north dakota live on rural reservations where they don't have street addresses. they use p.o. boxes instead. that voter i.d. law was aimed right at them. it made it next to impossible for them to vote, especially in the kinds of numbers they have voted in in the past. native americans generally form a pretty strong vote for democrats in north dakota.