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White House report highlights voting barriers for Native American voters [1]

['Shondiin Silversmith', 'More From Author', '- April']

Date: 2022-04-14 00:00:00

Native Americans face recurring and unnecessary barriers when it comes to exercising their right to vote, according to a report released by the White House.

“Many of the voting barriers faced by Native American communities are persistent and longstanding, with deep historical roots,” the report states.

The report identified a wide range of barriers that impact Native voters. Indigenous people face language barriers, lack of accessibility for voters with disabilities, cultural disrespect, outright hostility, extreme physical distances to polling places and persistent poverty.

And those conditions were only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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