Limiting voting laws criticized by US Native Americans
US Native Americans have expressed strong opposition to new voting laws passed by the Republican-dominated Congress earlier this year, stripping many aborigines of voting rights.
Rights groups say the new Republican-backed bills restrict or limit common voter registration and absentee ballot practices, threatening to disenfranchise thousands of tribal citizens, The Hill reported on Friday.
Republicans have been using former US President Donald Trump’s claims regarding the Democratic Party's cheating, and widespread election fraud in the United States as cover for a campaign to limit voter access.
The bills proposed by the Republican Party in various US courts largely center around tougher controls on voting by strengthening voter ID laws, shortening early voting in states, eliminating automatic and same-day voter registration, curbing the use of ballot drop boxes, limiting mail-in voting, and allowing for increased purging of voter rolls.
Rights groups say the Republican-proposed bill regarding strengthening voter ID which requires voters' to show a birth certificate and permanent address to vote will strip some Native Americans of their voting right.
Though Native Americans have been in the United States far longer than there have been in the United States, those born outside of hospital settings, a common occurrence for older generations, may not have a birth certificate.
Many, like Blackwater-Nygren’s grandmother, do not know their actual birthdates or have different sets of documents that show different dates of birth.
“When I tell these stories, when I explain to lawmakers, GOP members specifically, I’m told they do know when they were born and it’s ridiculous that anybody wouldn’t know what day they were born,” Blackwater-Nygren said.
Also, Native Americans, especially those residing on the hundreds of reservations across the country, may not have a permanent address as specified by the Republican-proposed law.
Due to these issues and other matters regarding voting flaws, Trump claimed the 2020 US election was fraudulent.
The self-proclaimed beacon of democracy witnessed an unprecedented attack on its Congress in opposition to election results and claims of voter fraud.
The brutal attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, once again revealed the failure of Democracy in the United States.
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