17 Oct 2018 8:52 pm
More voter suppression.
Her seat is crucial for Republicans to hold the Senate.
Republicans in North Dakota have imposed a new law that makes it harder for Native Americans to vote, undercutting a key part of Heidi Heitkamp's constituency.Black seniors kicked off bus going to polls because Georgia officials were ‘uncomfortable’
Dozens of black senior citizens were asked to leave a bus that was taking them to the polls Monday in Jefferson County, GA., the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The bus was owned by Black Votes Matter, a non-partisan group that visited a senior center in Louisville, Ga., to encourage people to vote.
But when folks got on the bus to go vote, a call came in for them to get off, according to the group.
“Someone had passed by and saw the seniors getting on the bus, and called the county commissioners’ office to tell them that we can’t do that,” Brown said in the video.
The video shows the organizers telling the seniors on the bus that they have to get off, but that it was okay because they were still going to get out and vote later.
“We are still going to vote! Can’t stop us!” some of the seniors say.
“There’s not a candidate on this bus, there’s not a party symbol on this bus, but I’m going to tell you what is on this bus: a whole bunch of black fists in the air with the word power underneath it. That’s what scared them ... “ Albright said later in the video.
This law was specifically designed to hurt Heidi Heitkamp's chances for reelection.Voters in North Dakota may find when they go to the polls in November that the voter ID that they used in the primary just a few months earlier is no longer accepted because it does not include their current residential address.
In this case, Native American voters will be especially affected because they often lack residential street addresses because their homes do not have addresses on them by no fault of their own.
North Dakota is able to enact a voter identification law that will take away the opportunity to vote for thousands of Native American United States citizens.
https://www.narf.org/nd-voting-rights/
Her seat is crucial for Republicans to hold the Senate.
North Dakota is one of the least densely populated in the country, meaning that a couple hundred votes could decide an election.
And Native Americans disproportionately vote Democrat, which could be bad news for Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, the state’s Democrat incumbent who is struggling to hold off her Republican opponent.
Heitkamp, who decided to break from her state and vote against Kavanaugh’s confirmation last week, won her last race by just 3,000 votes.
http://fortune.com/2018/10/10/supreme-c ... r-id-laws/