NPR reports that North Dakota’s Native IDs won’t be accepted at polling places.
Less than a month before the 2018 general election, the US Supreme Court upheld North Dakota’s restrictive voter ID law invalidating most Tribal IDs from being used at polling places.
Many Native American reservations, however, do not use physical street addresses. Native Americans are also overrepresented in the homeless population, according to the Urban Institute. As a result, Native residents often use P.O. boxes for their mailing addresses and may rely on tribal identification that doesn’t list an address.
Read more about how the Supreme Court is enabling voter suppression of Indigenous communities here.
There is a way to get your street address:
Be sure to request paper confirmation, in letter form, and have it mailed to your mailing address. This letter will serve as street address confirmation for voting purposes. You can use the same letter to also get an updated ID that includes street address.
