2020 Virtual SLS Book

AFewExamplesofOvertRacism

• In South Dakota, voters were forced to vote in a repurposed chicken coop • In Arizona, voters were forced to travel to the boarder city where racial tensions were so fraught that the pipes sending water to the reservation were regularly blocked • Consistent testimony that police were used to intimidate voters – heavy police presence checking plates leaving the reservation on Election Day. In Wisconsin, polling location placed inside of sheriff’s office • In Montana, county official would complain upon receipt of registrations and there were many suspicious errors in tribal registrations. Number of registration cards given to Native community organizations was arbitrarily limited • In South Dakota poll workers would fall silent and stare when a Native American entered to vote

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