irony in, you know, the extra hurdle to be added on our peo e people, the first people of this country and having to prove your citizenship. we ask all of the time, name a documented instance of voter fraud and we have yet to hear an answer, and so hiding behind the issue of voter fraud is becoming an excuse for voter suppression. and carlos ortiz spoke to voters in north dakota, one of the several state where is the voter restrictions are being challenged by activists. they are helping to have an estimated 5 million american natives to secure can an i.d. to vote after the supreme court upheld a controversial law requiring thom have an i.d. with a current street address which violates most of the native americans who live on reservations, and don t have street addresses.
i.d. with a street address. here on the standing rock reservation and tribal lands across north dakota, the law is seen to have one purpose, keep native americans from voting. it is a very complicated problem because some reservations don t have street addresses. the majority of them don t have house numbers. but they ve been utilizing a p.o. box. reporter: margaret landon a native american voting rights advocate says weeks before the election, some native americans, her husband included, are scrambling to get new ids just to vote. he had no idea what his street address. he had to call the county emergency coordinate to find out. i got 3 first avenue east is what they told me. now he has an i.d. and he
address. you think, no big deal. that could hurt native americans who live on tribal lands who often don t have street addresses. so, this is an issue all across the country. take a look at this. so important to register right now and vote this november. speak your mind, there s nothing to it. vote. there s always a big public push around election time to mobilize voters. but states across the country are actually passing new laws to restrict access to the ballot box. they re limiting early voting, they re closing polling places, they re passing voter i.d. laws, purging the names from voter registration rolls. all of this disproportionately hurts racial minorities and the poor. in 2016, three times as many black and hispanic voters than white voters across the country were told they lacked the proper i.d. to vote in the 2016 election, according to a new survey. and twice as many black voters
so the way we left the story on monday night is that various native american tribes in the great state of north dakota were scrambling to figure out a way to have their tribal members still be allowed to vote in this upcoming election in that state. the republican state legislature passed a new law that says you can no longer vote in that state if you don t have a residential address, a street address on your i.d. native americans on rural reservations in north dakota mostly do not have that. at a rate double that of everybody else in the state, native americans don t have street addresses on their i.d.s. the reservations just aren t set up that way. people just don t have street addresses. they ve never had them. their i.d.s have always just had p.o. boxes on them. up until now, that s always been fine to vote. it will not be fine to vote any more, as of next month s election in north dakota, per
so the way we left the story on monday night, is that various native american tribes in the great state of north dakota were scrambling to figure out a way to have their tribal members still be allowed to vote in this upcoming election in that state. the republican state legislature passed a new law that says you can no longer vote in that state if you don t have a residential address, a street address on your i.d. native americans on rural reservations in north dakota mostly do not have that. at a rate double that of everybody else in the state, native americans don t have street addresses on their i.d.s. the reservations just aren t set up that way. people just don t have street addresses. they ve never had them. their i.d.s have always just had p.o. boxes on them. up until now, that s always been fine to vote. it will not be fine to vote any more, as of next month s election in north dakota, per orders of the republican-led state legislature. so the describes are scrambling. in orde