American Indian group to monitor voting in 12 states
Monday, September 13, 2004 at 03:51AM
TheSpook
A national American Indian group plans to put
poll watchers at voting precinct's with a high percentage of American
Indian voters in Oklahoma and 12 other states, including Washington, on
Nov. 2. The Native Vote 2004: Election Protection Project is an
initiative to ensure that every Indian voter who is eligible to vote
does, and that each vote is counted fairly, said national coordinator
Heather Dawn Thompson. "This has never been done in Indian Country
before with the exception of South Dakota. So we're pretty excited
about it," said Thompson, who is also president of the Native American
Bar Association in Washington, D.C. [more ]
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