The Right to Vote: North Dakota

The North Dakota legislature passed a bill that required all registered voters to have a voter ID that included a permanent street address. Many saw it as a targeted attempt to limit the vote of the Native American community since customary addresses are not the norm on the state’s five reservations. On the Standing Rock reservation, tribal activists and their allies mobilized the community in response to the law, which resulted in a record voter turnout in 2018. But the law is still in place, and voting rights advocates fear that it will be strengthened leading up to the 2020 election. NARF continues to fight the law so that it does not remain on the books disenfranchising Native Americans year after year. We seek to protect voters who could not obtain a qualifying ID without an address.
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