Is a 911 street address — a fair-minded measure of voting legitimacy?

© 2018 Peter Free

 

31 October 2018

 

 

Consider the following example — of political duplicity

 

From Blake Nicholson — bracketed comments are mine:

 

 

The Spirit Lake Sioux tribe on Tuesday sued the [Republican run] state of North Dakota over its voting identification requirements . . . .

 

To cast a ballot, voters in North Dakota need identification with a provable street address — something that’s hard to come by on reservations [— as virtually anyone living in the rural and reservation-sprawling American West knows].

 

The state maintains everyone has a street address via the statewide 911 [emergency assistance] system, but the lawsuit . . . argues the system is “incomplete, contradictory and prone to error on reservations.”

 

© 2018 Blake Nicholson, Sioux Tribe Sues North Dakota Over Voter ID Requirements, Huffington Post (31 October 2018)

 

 

Naturally, the Supreme Court had added its rich history — of wealth-favoring bigotry to the issue

 

Nicholson continuing:

 

 

The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa sued over the voter ID requirements in 2016.

 

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in that case earlier this month allowed the state to continue requiring street addresses, as opposed to other addresses such as post office boxes.

 

However, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in a dissent that “the risk of voter confusion appears severe here.”

 

The state’s voter ID laws were tightened just a few months later, but the Republican-controlled Legislature maintains the changes were not due to [Democratic Senator] Heitkamp’s win [with Native American voters' help].

 

[Secretary of State Al] Jaeger has said the changes were aimed at guarding against voter fraud.

 

© 2018 Blake Nicholson, Sioux Tribe Sues North Dakota Over Voter ID Requirements, Huffington Post (31 October 2018)

 

 

Sure, Al — rampaging Native American voting fraud was the issue

 

We all know that a vote against the Republican Party of the Anti-Christ is the product of un-godly deceit.

 

 

The moral? — if Big White Guy says that you don't exist, you don't

 

The Party of the Anti-Christ continues its pillaging walk.

 

It privately grumbles (one can suspect) that the genocide of Native Americans was left incomplete.