you got to appeal to everybody. but when it comes to mobilizing people who are almost sure are going to vote for you, if the republicans can turn off the native american vote, if they can end that, they can run the table. they don t have to worry about there being any u.s. senators from the democratic party. there s been legal wrangling over this voter suppression effort in north dakota for years now. that legal wrangling, that back and forth in the courts and with the legislature, that means that in addition to just this blunt effort by the legislature to cut off the native american vote, there s also been a lot of confusion in the state because there has been this legal fight back and forth with all these different iteration of the law and court rulings. because of that legal wrangling, ips were accepted as okay for voting as recently as this year s primaries, june of this year. just because there were ongoing legal fights over this. now the fights are over. the supreme court has wei
he would support this proposal. he responded that due to the litigation, he would not be able to respond to our proposal at all. wow. i want to read you something from the dissent in the supreme court on this. this was from justice ginsburg and her dissent when the majority of the court decided to okay this law. she said the risk of voter confusion appears severe here because the injunction against requiring residential address identification was enforced during the primary election, and because the secretary of state s website announced for months the i.d. requirements as they existed under that injunction. i wanted to ask about that risk that justice ginsburg was identifying there in her dissent. separate and apart from the new restrictions here, are you worried that people will just be confused about whether or not they can vote, and that itself will be suppressive? yes. because of the fact that one election they re able to vote with this i.d. and the next election they re not,
tribal officials in every polling place and having the maps with the districts like the court requires, we re going to be able to assist them in voting. it is not going to be easy. i mean, we re really scrambling to get this done. and meeting with the tribes and identifying the street addresses. and you to understand, tribes are sovereign nations. they can create their own street addresses. they don t have to rely on the state of north dakota. one of the things i d throw in is that that 911 address system north dakota is talking about was really that easy, it seems like during the first court case, they would have sent the 911 addresses to the tribes or even during the eighth circuit appeals they would have sent it or even during the supreme court. but they didn t do it that way. they said they want each and every individual tribal member
a long time in the courts it looks like with the supreme court s ruling, this is now settled, that they are going to not allow people to vote unless they ve got street addresses on their i.d.s. how many people do you think this will affect in north dakota and what s the effort to try to get people into the polling place, able the vote even if their old i.d.s don t have street addresses? you know, it s going to affect thousands of people, even 5,000 to 10,000. the street addresses is very common maybe in cities, but on reservation street addresses literally do not exist. so by taking one stroke of the pen, they re able to at least cross out thousands of native americans from participating in the democratic process. in terms of the scramble here between now and 22 days from now when the election happens, the state has said they see no undue burden in trying to make sure that as you say, 5,000, 10,000 people who are affected by this, that they can all get themselves new ids. they can
held u.s. senate seat from that red state. and the closest of heitkamp s last race, the crucial support that she got from native american voters, that did not escape notice among republicans. and in particular, among republicans who are now making decisions about whose going to be allowed to vote this next time and who might find it exceedingly difficult to vote this next time. and you may be noticing a sort of theme these days in the news, right? we re 22 days out from the midterm elections as of right now. late last week we reported a story out of waller county, texas. waller county is a county that is about 70% white, but it s also home to a historically black college, prairie view a&m, where the student body is over 80% black. under constitutional law, under crystal clear supreme court precedent, college students are allowed to vote wherever they live, which includes if they live at college.