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45 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/narf45 and id is 1 raw text is: Earlier this year, the Spirit Lake Nation, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the individual plain- tiffs, and the North Dakota Secretary of State in Brakebill, et. al v. Jaeger and Spirit Lake et. al v. Jaeger announced an agreement to settle the two federal cases and address issues related to using tribal IDs for voting in North Dakota. The parties are working together to ensure that Native Americans who are qualified electors will be able to vote in 2020 and beyond. This fight has been ongoing for over four years, and we are delighted to come to an agreement. that protects Native voters, said Native American Rights Fund (NAREF) Staff Attorney Matthew Campbell, who represented plaintiffs in both cases. It has always been our goal to ensure that every Native person in North Dakota has an equal opportunity to vote, and we have achieved that today. Not Able to Vote In 2014, veteran and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians member Elvis Norquay went to his local polling station to vote as usual. Unlike years past, that year Mr. Norquay was turned away from the polls and not allowed to vote. The reason given was that he did not have an ID that met the state's new restrictive specifications. The law required voters to present identification listing their residential street address. Like many of his neighbors in the Turtle Mountain community, Mr. Norquay did not have that. The new street address requirement was a sub- stantial hurdle for many Native Americans because North Dakota has a broken addressing NARF attorneys with plaintiff Elvis Norquay at the US Court of Appeals in September 2018. system. The state had failed to assign residential street addresses to many tribal reservation homes. Many Native Americans living on reser- vations do not have or do not know their residen- tial addresses. Tribal citizens often must use P0 Boxes to conduct their affairs. Therefore, they are more likely to have an ID that lists a P0 Box rather than the residential address that was required by the North Dakota voter ID law. Also, the unique burdens faced by Native i Voigmhs P o ec edfo' N txve Vote i N...th.D . .te.................... . . I A NARP lpadge 12 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~ : VOUM 45 N Voting Rights Protected for Native Voters 1

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